Category Archives: Books

The annual Aotearoa summer dress and textile crawl, 2021-2022

Posted on December 19, 2021 by karinwarnaar

It’s just about time for the annual post on what’s on around Aotearoa New Zealand in the CTANZ sphere of interest but it’s quite the season. This is just a starter: look forward to more detailed posts over the next … Continue reading →

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Fashion Forward: Disruption through Design ~ Boosted campaign

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Angela Dawn

Fashion FWD >> Disruption through Design is an upcoming exhibition and a celebration of fabulous frocks, beautiful couture and the work and voices of fashion disruptors. Alongside this exhibition of the brazen and the chic, is a lush 220-page catalogue … Continue reading →

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Crafting Aotearoa

Posted on December 8, 2019 by karinwarnaar

Every couple of decades, someone takes stock of craft/object art in Aotearoa New Zealand. There was Doreen Blumhardt and Brian Brake’s Craft New Zealand in 1982 and Helen Schamroth’s 100 New Zealand Craft Artists in 1998, both of which won … Continue reading →

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Film festival preview 2019

Posted on July 16, 2019 by karinwarnaar

2018 was such a big year for textile/dress movies that it’s seemed that this year has been a bit short of dressy films, but fortunately the NZIFF knows that the frockies come out for the occasion and have scheduled a … Continue reading →

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Singing, dancing, frocks and books

Posted on August 12, 2016 by karinwarnaar

Madeleine St John’s novel, The Women in Black, was released quietly in the 1990s, when the nostalgia for mid-century style was yet to hit its peak but since it was re-released by Text Publishing in 2012, it’s been readily available … Continue reading →

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Making the Australian Quilt: 1800-1950 – exhibition and symposium

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Claire Regnault

NGV, Melbourne, Australia from 22 July – 6 November 2016 PRESS RELEASE: Australia’s rich quilt heritage, resplendent with imagery of native flora and fauna, early coats of arms and motifs of daily colonial life, will be revealed in Making the Australian … Continue reading →

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Fashion exhibition online

Posted on April 25, 2016 by karinwarnaar

Many of this blog’s posts are for local events and exhibitions that not all of us can get to, but one of the beauties of the University of Otago’s Special Collections is that they develop online versions of all their … Continue reading →

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Fashion rules, Ok, absolutely

Posted on March 14, 2016 by karinwarnaar

It’s iD week in Dunedin, lots of colour and style and people making an effort, including some CTANZ stalwarts. At Mint,  Desi Liversage’s critique of fast fashion and Li Edelkoort’s anti-fashion manifesto and adds further to this debate with a … Continue reading →

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Thinking about fashion…iD programme out

Posted on January 31, 2016 by karinwarnaar

Isn’t she gorgeous? She’s Thinking About Fashion ahead of iD 2016 and an hour of short talks by Otago academics with that title, on aspects of fashion including marketing, shows and collecting, on Wednesday 16 March at the university as … Continue reading →

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Upcoming lecture by fashion writer / curator Alexandra Palmer 9 February 2016

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Claire Regnault

On Tuesday 9 February, 2016 at 6pm Dr Alexandra Palmer of the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada will present a lecture at Massey University, Wellington on ‘Frock coats, redingotes and Dior: Fashion in the Royal Ontario Museum 1909-2016’. In this illustrated talk, Dr … Continue reading →

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