by Carolyn Enting | Aug 26, 2026 | fashion, Features
Word on Fashion has been immersed in New Zealand Fashion Week-land for the past week and gosh it was good for the soul and creative spirit. Sure, we were on social media A LOT, sharing reels of the incredible collections hitting the runway but it was also a week where...
by Word on Fashion | Aug 23, 2026 | Face, face-featured
Aleph Beauty brought its skin-first, consciously created make-up to the runway at New Zealand Fashion Week Kahuria 2026. We unpack some of the looks created for NZFW’s opening show The Art of Style, Twenty-Seven Names and Taylor – where Aleph helped bring each...
by Carolyn Enting | Aug 3, 2026 | fashion, Features
It’s two weeks out from NZ Fashion Week when I catch up with Rachel Easting and Anjali Burnett at their Twenty-Seven Names Wellington workroom / HQ. Sun pours through the windows, Ghuznee St’s café chatter rising faintly from below, and Rachel has bolts of...
by Word on Fashion | Oct 14, 2025 | News, What's On
Christchurch-born designer Caitlin Crisp is to headline the inaugural Christchurch Spring Fashion Festival with a one-off solo show on November 8. Crisp will debut her Resort 2025 “nautical” collection made for golden days by the sea and has collaborated with tanning...
by Carolyn Enting | Oct 7, 2025 | Features
In the lead up to the London screening of RNZ documentary series Cutting the Curve, we had a heart-to-heart with co-producer Evelyn Ebrey. Evelyn Ebrey has worked in fashion for most of her career yet as a size 16-18 she’s mostly felt like an outsider and left with...
