Tantrums and butterflies were forgotten as dozens of kids got their first taste of the fashion world at the Trelise Cooper Kids show.
As doting mothers watched on, dozens of little girls were primped and pampered for the show at this year’s New Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland.
Tutus, tulle skirts and bright bows were dished out [...]

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 [...]

New Zealanders‘ intake of sugar is not associated with being overweight or obese, new research released by the Sugar Research Advisory Service has found.
The New Zealand research, headed by University of Otago’s Dr Winsome Parnell and recently published online by Public Health Nutrition, examined data collected in the most recent New Zealand nutrition surveys for [...]

He will soon be regarded as our arch rugby enemy, but last night Crusaders coach Robbie Deans was honoured by a host of big sporting names for his huge contribution to the New Zealand game.
Deans, who has led his beloved Canterbury franchise to a record four Super rugby titles, controversially missed out on the All [...]

People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And an 18-year-old New York model waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart.
Three months earlier, Weslee Price Wootten had sent the Western Union cablegram that would change her life: Darling, I will marry you. All my love.
Noel D’Audney enlisted in 1939, an Auckland University student who [...]

But is it too good to be true? Everything in life has a cost, even if it’s not immediately obvious. KiwiSaver may be lucrative for many people but that doesn’t mean it’s good for New Zealand as a whole.
The total cost of KiwiSaver’s subsidies will soon reach $2 billion a year, and that is probably [...]

Last year we commented on a difference in how sports teams are referred to in Britain and New Zealand: “England are playing well”, but “New Zealand is playing well”.
We wondered whether the difference related to a perception that the team is a bunch of individuals (are) or a coherent single entity (is).
Kate Blackhurst e-mailed at [...]

The Maori Party wants more public education about the Treaty of Waitangi, Education  after a survey revealed some support to replace Waitangi Day as the national day with Anzac Day.
The Research New Zealand survey found 38 per cent of people felt Anzac Day would be more appropriate.
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said it was important [...]

Austral Pacific has had four chief executives since 2005, a stake in the “head-scratcher” Cardiff gasfield that has failed to deliver for three years, and now an annual loss of $22 million.
Its shares are down to 85c from $1.90 seven months ago, and $3.90 in 2005.
Its balance sheet at the end of December looked worrisome, [...]

As Rosemount Australian Fashion Week enters its teens the event is now a destination for international buyers.
On Monday more than 100 fashion designers from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and India will begin showing their wares at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week’s spring-summer 2008 collections. In the front rows, next to the media and celebrities, local and [...]