She’s the woman behind New Zealand’s most iconic fashion label, but Elisabeth Findlay doesn’t let the hype go to her head.
With her red lipstick, jet black hair and trademark black outfit, she looks every bit the fashionista who, along with husband Neville, created Zambesi.
After 29 years designing clothes for Kiwi men and women, the Parnell [...]
When we first caught glimpses of Carrie wearing a white minidress with a fabric hibiscus flower the size of a pizza, we knew the Sex and the City movie would be bigger than the series in every way, fashion included.
Amid rumors about the movie’s plot - wedding! funeral! baby! - fans began buzzing about the [...]
As the morning sun pours into his studio, designer Robert
Rodriguez shows off luxurious lace dresses and silk tops with
cascading flowers, a far cry from the street wear so prevalent on
the Los Angeles streets outside.
His modern showroom and atelier reflect the upscale aspirations
of this city’s apparel industry, which is yearning to raise its
profile - even though [...]
His modern showroom and atelier reflect the upscale aspirations of this citys apparel industry, which is yearning to raise its profile - even though it already dictates what much of the world wears every day.
%26quot;It would be nice for people to be more open-minded about designers in LA,%26quot; said Rodriguez, whose creations are sold in [...]
Doing her hair and nails? That too, she says, but mostly training for her teams involvement this weekend in the rural firefighters Wajax competitions at Te Anau.
It has been a great and exhilarating week out fighting fires, according to the trained volunteer who joined the Kingston brigade as soon as she arrived to settle in [...]
Doing her hair and nails? That too, she says, but mostly training for her teams involvement this weekend in the rural firefighters Wajax competitions at Te Anau.
It has been a great and exhilarating week out fighting fires, according to the trained volunteer who joined the Kingston brigade as soon as she arrived to settle in [...]
As one of the worlds biggest luxury goods markets, Japan should be every emerging designers paradise. But its famously enthusiastic shoppers and fashion-crazy schoolgirls tend to either buy global brands or underground labels that revolve around the latest teenage fad, leaving little space for new, upmarket domestic designers.
%26quot;My brand doesnt completely fit the Japanese market, [...]
According to a recent UN report an estimated 25 per cent of cocaine enters Europe via Africa in a trade that UN drugs csar Antonio Maria Costa says is causing %26quot;untold misery, corruption, violence and instability%26quot;.
While praising the humanitarian work of rocker Bob Geldof and U2-frontman Bono, Costa said their achievements in Africa were being [...]
There is the sense, however, that this time around wearable clothes are marching back into view. What started at New Zealand Fashion Week 07 is now mainstream.
Fashions backroom people are reluctant starters when it comes to declaring a colour, shape, or particular arrangement of garments as THE look.
After all, who wants to be copycat when [...]
Australian-born Hollywood actress Miranda Otto turned heads in a stunning pillar-box red Nicola Finetti dress, while socialites and fashionistas sipped champagne in the sun on the lawn of Government House.
The opulent surrounds provided a fitting backdrop for the 400 guests, including top Australian models Megan Gale and Kirsty Hinze, to chat about the autumn-winter seasons [...]
