Author: Angela Lassig, with an Introduction by Peter Shand
Publication date: April 2010
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New Zealand Fashion Design celebrates New Zealand’s top contemporary fashion designers, showcasing their work, and encapsulating the developments that have brought New Zealand to the attention of the international fashion world over the past 30 years.
Featuring one-on-one interviews, this beautifully-designed book provides real insights into each designer’s work methods, design philosophy, and inspiration. More than 500 high-quality photographs give a close-up look at the clothes themselves and behind the scenes.
Essential reading for anyone interested in fashion.
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Book launch on 8 April 2010
New Zealand Fashion Design was launched on Thursday 8 April in the lovely art deco Grand Tearoom at the Heritage Hotel, Auckland. Antonia Prebble (star of Outrageous Fortunes) hosted the event which was attended by the designers featured in the book, numerous people from the New Zealand fashion world, media and contributors.
Photos from the book launch 8 April 2010.
A video of the event from 1am magazine for those who weren’t there.
Competition winner announced
Te Papa Press, on behalf of Visa Entertainment, is thrilled to announce the winner of the New Zealand Fashion Design book competition. Our lucky winner is Angela Roper from Auckland. Angela wins a Visa Prezzy card with $2,000 loaded on it, a $2,000 voucher from the Karen Walker collection, an HP Vivienne Tam Special Edition Mini PCHewlett Packard laptop and VIP tickets for two to NZ Fashion week. Te Papa would like to thank the very generous support of Visa Entertainment, Karen Walker, HP, and New Zealand Fashion week.
About Angela Lassig
Angela Lassig’s current research interests include fashion and textile history in nineteenth and twentieth-century New Zealand. As senior curator, History at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, where she worked for eight years, she curated a number of fashion exhibitions.
NZ RRP (incl. GST): $120.00
Extent: 532 pages
Illustration: More than 500 full-colour illustrations including 100 plates
Format: Hardcover, paper laminated case, 297 x 232 mm portrait
Binding: HB
ISBN: 978-1-877385-37-7