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Melbourne bound for the winner of the Newmarket Young Fashion Designer 2012

The winner of the Newmarket Young Fashion Designer 2012 is set to receive not only a two year scholarship at  Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design and a two week internship with top New Zealand designer Vicki Taylor at the taylor workroom but this year’s winner will well and truly get to experience all that the real fashion world has to offer!

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A mustering of models

While you were making your breakfast yesterday (Sunday 5 August 2012), models from eight of the country’s top agencies were queuing at Auckland’s Viaduct Event Centre for the New Zealand Fashion Week 2012 model casting.

A Gem of a Year Continues for Kat Gee

Jewellery designer Kat Gee’s run of successes continues, this time being named as a finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year Awards.

Bright delights with Icebreaker Spring/Summer 2013

Icebreaker’s innovation has extended far beyond the functional technical-wear on which the iconic brand has built its reputation. 

Fashionistas relish the Red Carpet Night

West Lynn fashion strip on Richmond Road, which includes Dalston, Moa and Vanilla Ink are collaborating to bring fashionistas of Auckland the Red Carpet Night.

Stephen Marr to present five big names

Stephen Marr and Hallertau will present The Marr Factory - a series of five fashion shows by six of the country’s best-known fashion labels - in an event series in Ponsonby at the end of the month.  Karen Walker, Zambesi, Helen Cherry and Workshop, Nom*D and Kate Sylvester will all show their spring/summer 2012/13 collections at The Golden Dawn in Ponsonby, with very limited...

Hello Country/Goodbye Nightclub – Stolen Girlfriends Club Summer 12/13

Stolen Girlfriends Club launched summer 12/13 last week. The collection appropriately named "Hello Country/Goodbye Nightclub" portrays an innocent country girl who reinvents her wardrobe by cutting up her country frocks and reshaping into “big town” city silhouettes.

STELLA!

We’re having a Stella McCartney/Olympics mash-up moment here at FashioNZ.

Live Life to CLASH

Inspired by music and subversive culture, in particular the British counter-cultural movement of the 60s and 70s, CLASH Boutique offers the latest looks turning heads on the streets of the UK, New York and Sydney.

New, Limited and Fantastique: Karen Walker Eyewear

We told you about Karen Walker’s stunning filigree sunglasses in FREE|STYLE back in June...The Limited Edition ‘Fantastique’ range will hit stores in the first week of September.

Kiwis can vote for the nation’s favourite little white dress

19,500 lineal metres of Kleenex Cottonelle toilet paper have been tucked, teased and tailored into 34 beautiful feather-light paper dresses by students at top fashion school NZ Fashion Tech. Judges have chosen three to grace the runway at New Zealand Fashion Week’s six Designer Selection shows in Auckland in September.

New Zealand Fashion Week Designer Announcement 2012

FashioNZ is excited to bring you the NZFW 2012 Designer List.*  We’re rapt to see Company of Strangers on the list for the first time and the return of Cybele for her eighth NZFW show.

Seven-and-a-half decades of Ray-Ban

Taylor Boutique announces new store at Britomart

Long-established Auckland fashion label Taylor will open a new boutique in Britomart’s newest fashion development later this year.