Tag: fashion

Five questions with Wanda Harland

Full dis­clo­sure: the Welling­ton­ista is all about nepo­tism. So we thought it was about jol­ly time we sat down (well, emailed) our Martha, who has been a very impor­tant part of the ‘ista since like 2006 at least (although she is much less of a bad influ­ence on us now than she used to be), […]

Saint Fabiola fabulousness

Last Fri­day we had a love­ly time at the open­ing of St Fabi­o­la on Lom­bard Street (you may have seen us tweet­ing about the pies from Pick­le and Pie, because, you know, pri­or­i­ties), so this week, we caught up with the own­er Kirsten for a chat over email. What’s your back­ground before the shop? I’m an […]

Project Glow on the Runway

A few weeks ago we pre­viewed the gar­ments and acces­sories cre­at­ed for Project Glow, a fash­ion com­pe­ti­tion for reflec­tive gear. Last Sat­ur­day evening we attend­ed the Welling­ton show (the Auck­land show is on Sat­ur­day 26th, tick­ets here). Right now it’s hard to com­pete with all those lus­cious burg­er pho­tos here on The Welling­ton­ista, so we think we […]

Preview: Project Glow

At a pos­si­bly not-that-secret loca­tion in the heart of Te Aro, The Welling­ton­ista was invit­ed to pre­view the entrants for this year’s Project Glow. We had to tap on the win­dow to gain entrance, and while there only man­aged to take the blur­ri­est of pho­tos. That’s because the judges were busy at work; and we […]

World of Wearable Arts Season

I’ve heard the com­plaints; World of Wear­able Arts — WOW is for women of a cer­tain age and is far too expen­sive. I’d not been to the show before so I could­n’t con­firm or deny, but oh wow are those peo­ple wrong. To start with WOW to me was two expe­ri­ences seam­less meld­ed togeth­er, and also […]

Happy happy birthday

I have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion the Masked Barfly has a few Manda­to­ry suits in his wardrobe. And now the Cuba St store is cel­e­brat­ing a spe­cial birth­day — 15 years in busi­ness!!! Design­ers Clare Bow­den and Fiona Edwards first met while train­ing in fash­ion and fash­ion tex­tiles at Welling­ton Poly­tech­nic. Now they have a league […]

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 […]

Win a Most Wanted voucher

Edit: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Com­ment #3 who the ran­dom­iz­er select­ed — Lau­ra, I will email you to get your address. In all the con­fu­sion, fun and booze at the TAWAs last week, I com­plete­ly for­got that we had anoth­er prize give­away to do, a vouch­er for Most Want­ed Vin­tage at 81 Aro Street. Most Want­ed Vin­tage […]

From Paris to Pompeii — again

As part of Massey Uni­ver­si­ty’s ‘Blow’ Cre­ative Arts Fes­ti­val, Leimo­mi Oakes is once again pre­sent­ing a  a free talk and fash­ion show From Pom­peii to Paris: the Clas­si­cal influ­ence on West­ern fash­ion See his­to­ry come to life with a talk explor­ing how ancient Greece and Rome have influ­enced fash­ions in the West.  The talk will […]

Wheel Stylish: the Cycle Chic Fashion Show

Fab­u­lous fash­ion + beau­ti­ful bikes + Welling­ton women = Wheel Styl­ish! Bikes are back baby (not like they actu­al­ly went any­where) and there is *such* a range of cycling expe­ri­ences to be had.  You’ve got your hip­ster fix­ie rid­er, your lycra-clad fit freak, your sen­si­bly attired pub­lic ser­vant with the back­pack who did not get […]