Circular fashion meets NZ's design history in this NZFW runway moment
NZ Fashion Week's Into the Archive show looks back to move forward - curator Dan Ahwa shares an exclusive first look.
An oral history of NZFW locations
From navy frigates to city carparks, historic theatres to suburbia, these show spaces have offered a unique fashion tour of Tāmaki Makaurau.
The label for women who've lived a little
The slow build of Masami, and its 60-something designer Julie Puddick.
Claudia Li's life in beauty is all about blush, and balance
The fashion designer on discipline, complex scents and what product brings back "a soft memory of joy".
Nom*D is too cool to care about trends
The NZ fashion stalwart's enduring and innovative design is reaching across generations.
The creative collective ripping through fashion norms
MaeSteal takes aim at the compulsive gendering of fashion, and the confines of cishet styling and ‘professionalism’.
We took the Auckland Central candidates to fashion week
Front row with the Greens' Chlöe Swarbrick, National's Mahesh Muralidhar and Labour's Oscar Sims.
We think you’ll like these three young designers
Student editors meet student designers backstage at the Graduate Show
What designers wear to take their bow
How the visionaries dress for their fleeting moment in the spotlight.
Launching our Ensemble hair bow at our third birthday lunch
We invited an ensemble of friends for yum cha, leaving our souls and bellies full.
NZ Fashion Week has changed, and that’s okay
Ensemble editor Zoe Walker Ahwa reviews NZFW, as it finds its new identity.
Getting ready for the Kate Sylvester show with Tova O’Brien
We play dress ups and talk the politics of identity (and berets) with Stuff’s chief political correspondent.
