Three dates for your diary

This is a some­what ran­dom roundup of press releases that caught my eye. Octo­ber 25 (that’s tomor­row) sees Power­tool Records present Bul­leth­oles 4: Explor­ing the Unknown – the New Zea­l­and road­show at Bar Medusa. I don’t actu­ally know any of the bands fea­tur­ing, nor can I testi­fy to how the album sounds, but nine years ago […]

WOW 2012

It was my first time at WOW. I knew that I could expect a spec­tacle along with fant­ast­ic wear­able art but I was unpre­pared for just how delighted I’d be. The sheer exuber­ance of the per­formers, the out­land­ish designs, and the joy of the win­ning design­ers made me clap my hands in child­ish glee sev­er­al […]

Fashion in reflection

Fash­ion­ably late is usu­ally a term reserved for the truly glam­our­ous, so per­haps it is apt that this belated post is a snap­shot of Wel­ling­ton Fash­ion Week. Group A – April 19 After a well-groomed schmooz­ing open­ing party, things truly kicked off – with stilet­tos on – with the Group A show on Thursday night. […]

Sweetie darling mwah

It was with slight trep­id­a­tion I signed up to cov­er Wel­ling­ton Fash­ion Week. I do love clothes, but I don’t know any­thing about fash­ion shows. I’m will­ing to learn though, and it was a good chance to pull on my best shoes. Joanna and the Fly and I trot­ted off to the open­ing party on […]

Wellington Fashion Week is coming.

The first Wel­ling­ton Fash­ion Week takes place 18th-26th April. There will be a vari­ety of events includ­ing dif­fer­ent shows, pop-ups, a high tea and of course lots of deeply hip people. We’re pretty excited and will be report­ing from vari­ous events. You can find a timetable and info here. The design­ers show­ing are Star­fish, Nic­ola […]

we pause for some pretty

It’s Academy Award day in LA and we know the answer to the fash­ion ques­tion of the day “what are you wear­ing?” for two Wel­ling­to­ni­ans, Jana Bar­rett and Jen­nifer Bloom­field. The answer  = Voon. Jana’s hus­band, Weta Digit­al’s Daniel Bar­rett (who will be wear­ing a Merino wool tuxedo), was the Anim­a­tion Super­visor and Jen­nifer­’s hus­band […]