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Beading her way to FJFW | Helen Oro – First Nation indigenous fashion designer of Canada
We at Fiji Fashion Week are preparing ecstatically to receive the first group of indigenous First Nations people of the Pelican Lake Band from Saskatchewan in the middle of Canada. Fashion and Jewellery Designer Helen Oro is from the Pelican Lake Tribe of the Bear Creek Clan. She is “thrilled to be the first indigenous...
Louis Vuitton picks Shanghai for first furniture and homewares store
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Louis Vuitton on Friday announced plans to open a dedicated furniture and homewares store in Shanghai, a world first for the French luxury brand as it aims to expand further into lifestyle offerings to affluent Chinese clients. The appointment-only showroom, which will open on Monday, is located in a century-old three-storey mansion...
Mausio’s journey
Managing the relationship you have with your customer is crucial to many businesses and even more so in the fashion industry where clothes are more than something to wear. Michael Mausio has used the pandemic and the lulls and lows during the crisis to get to know the people who wear his “House of Mausio”...
Fiji Fashion Week: Cherish takes fashion to a new dimension
When danger was close, Cherish Prasad took off to his hometown, the hidden paradise of Savusavu on Vanua Levu to be safe from the second wave of COVID-19. His fashion talent could not be kept away though, so when he found out Fiji Fashion Week was turning virtual and managing director Ellen Whippy-Knight asked designers...
Breaking the mould – Friends pair up to pursue fashion outside of professional careers
At first glance, they are your stereotypical young professional woman pursuing careers in the civil service after having completed years of training and qualifications as expected from home. But Vedika Rathod, a nurse at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit and Nikhaat Akbar Khan, an environmental officer with the Fijian government had a...
Fashion Week: Hoerder begins fashion doctorate
The value of academic research is unrivalled but the link between academic and lifestyle sectors like fashion, is not always easily made. Though glamourous and seemingly far removed from academia, the Fiji fashion industry has needed the backing that research can make into charting a more structured way forward for those who work in the...
Local brands graced London stage
Fijian designer Eferemo Ramokosoi officially introduced his fashion brand – Ramokosoi Fiji – during the London Pacific Fashion Week (LPFW) earlier this month. Launched at the Royal Horseguards Hotel in Whitehall, London, UK, the exhibition also included the works of other local designers such as Hupfeld Hoerder, Niurua Creatives and Vulagi Design. LPFW director Ana...
Hupfeld to do PhD in Fiji fashion
Hupfeld Hoerder is a name many associate with fashion firsts and innovation in this country and news of another huge opportunity announced last week wasn’t a surprise to the industry. Now soon to be Fiji’s first ever recipient of a scholarship to conduct doctoral studies in fashion, he will someday go by Dr Hoeder. Announcing...
Bulou’s guiding light
SHE had always enjoyed looking and feeling good and so style and clothes were important to the way she expressed herself. But when Bulou Caeway’s life took a dark turn just over two years ago, fashion became her guiding light. The young mum is one of the freshest faces in the line-up of the Resort...
Palmolive is FJFW’s official sponsor
Fiji Fashion Week (FJFW) received a timely boost after Colgate-Palmolive Fiji (CP) renewed its sponsorship, making Palmolive the official partner of the Pacific’s premier fashion event for the 2021 and 2022, yesterday. CP general manager, Hiten Lal and FJFW managing director, Ellen Whippy-Knight sealed the deal virtually reaffirming the oral, personal and home care giant’s...
Konrote to host first solo fashion show
Fashion designer Aisea Konrote will be hosting his first solo-fashion show at the Yue Lai Hotel in Suva today. He said this fashion event would be unique because he would be highlighting the importance of respecting women. “I’ve done many fashion shows, participated in Fiji Fashion Week, represented Fiji abroad for a couple of years, but this year,...
Tough love Samson’s strength
Entrepreneurship came easy because as a child Samson Lee learned that every part of the business process costs something. Growing up in Nadi, Samson was the youngest of four children and was always trying new things and pushing boundaries and while his parents were very supportive, they charged him for everything the leading fashion designer...
Designer shifts base
Bondi Beach in Sydney is one of Australia’s most iconic beaches, popular with surfers, holidaymakers and health conscious people who go to enjoy the dramatic scenery. Nadi-based Tracey Farrington brings that vibe alive in the resort wear she has produced for over 25 years that the fashionable holidaymakers can pick up at some of Australia’s...
Oceans Gala fashion event a success
Acknowledging the United Nations Decade of Oceans, the Oceans Gala Fiji Fashion Week which took place over the weekend was a success. In her address, FFW’s managing director Ellen Whippy-Knight said the show acknowledged the ocean as a life force for Fiji and other Pacific Island countries. “The ocean is what connects us to the...
Aisea’s gypsy dreams
Glamour stirred his fashion interest but it’s really the challenge and difficulty of getting a collection from vision to the runway that drives Aisea Konrote. Trading under the Hefrani label, this is a designer whose garments have been on all the major runways of the Fijian fashion industry. While he has shone on other out-of-Suva...
