Designer Focus | Lucy Maxwell of Josephine
Lucy Maxwell, founder and creative director of Josephine, has spent over 14 years working in the fashion industry. Her career began as a workroom…
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Style Meets Self-Care | Els Lovers
Founded by 22-year-old Ella Cunningham, Els Lovers has reimagined the everyday heat pack, transforming it into a wearable act of self-care to support those…
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Woven Together By Nature
The team at Untouched World travelled to Europe to gather inspiration for their latest collection – Woven Together by Nature. They returned dreaming about…
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Rediscovering Artisanal Craftsmanship
Adrion Atelier’s latest collection, “Opaque Boundaries – Me Seeing Me”, explored the deconstruction of hidden rules and opaque cultural expectations, particularly those shaping self-expression,…
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From Memory To Modernity: A New Chapter For Claudia Li
In her latest collection, ‘A Different Place and Time…’, designer Claudia Li revisited the DNA of her brand through the lens of who she…
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Designer Focus | smallTown’s Arielle Raycene
Inspired by the Midwest and its way of life is Arielle Raycene’s fashion brand, smallTown. Growing up in the open fields while also having…
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Designer Focus | Anja Bucher, OHEN
Co-founder and creative director of OHEN, Wellingtonian Anja Bucher, moved to Auckland to study fashion, guided by her mother, a fashionista herself. “My mum…
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Designer Focus | Luan Rose, Amber Dawn
Like most high school students, Luan Rose was unsure what she would do after graduation (although she dreamt of being a rockstar). She took…
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Designer Focus | Milena Raskovic, Mera Silk
Mera Silk was founded by Milena Raskovic and Ranil Kumar in November 2022, and was something they poured their hearts and souls into building….
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Emerging Designers | George Park
George Park graduated top of the class back in 2022 at Otago Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Design. He now hopes to eventually return…
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Designer Focus | Katherine Jackson, Blue Tango
Katherine Jackson followed the rest of her family down the career pathway of becoming an accountant. She found it stressful to work long days…
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Emerging Designer | Sheetol Chawla
Like most immigrants, Sheetol Chawla left her home country and moved to New Zealand looking for better opportunities and to follow her dreams. Chawla’s…
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