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New Zealand Fashion Museum
The New Zealand Fashion Museum is a virtual fashion museum in New Zealand established in 2010. It was the brainchild of fashion designer and fashion historian Doris de Pont. Established as a charitable trust in January 2010, the museum holds "pop-up" exhibitions around New Zealand and runs as an online museum. It draws from public and private collections to pull together its exhibitions, featuring designers such as Liz Findlay and Margi Robertson. The museum's first pop-up exhibition, ''Looking Terrific – the Story of El Jay'', was curated by Doris de Pont. It showcased over 50 vintage garments by New Zealand fashion industry leader Gus Fisher and his label El Jay. The Auckland exhibition was held at the Gus Fisher Gallery. The Wellington season was hosted by Kirkcaldie and Stains, which welcomed the clothes back into its store as stockists of El Jay during its 50-year history. In 2018, the museum curated and presented a century of summer fashion. In 2019, the museum cura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris De Pont
Doris de Pont (born 1954) is a New Zealand fashion designer and director of the New Zealand Fashion Museum. Early life and education Doris de Pont was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1954. Her parents emigrated to New Zealand around 1952 from the Netherlands. Her maternal grandfather was a tailor and owned the family clothing business: established in 1840. Her father's family made football boots and shoes. Both family businesses contributed to the textile industry in Tilburg. de Pont started sewing at a young age and continued to sew while studying for a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and political studies at the University of Auckland and completed her teacher training in the early-1970s. Career After her studies, de Pont worked as a teacher for several years before moving to the Netherlands, where she lived between 1978 and 1984. During this time she found work at the Rudolf Steiner School in The Hague, and also designed and made clothing as part of a women's fashion coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Findlay
Elisabeth Findlay is a New Zealand fashion designer. She co-founded the fashion house Zambesi with her husband, Neville Findlay, in 1979. Career Findlay was born in Athens, Greece. In 1951 the Red Cross relocated her family to Dunedin, New Zealand. Her mother taught her and her sisters how to sew, she never received any formal training in fashion design. At 21 she moved to Auckland and got a job working at a clothing company. Through this experience she learned how to use industrial machines and the production behind clothes. In 1976, encouraged by her sister, Margi Robertson, she opened ''Tart'' boutique store in Parnell Auckland. She selected labels to sell based on her own taste and included New Zealand designers such as Marilyn Sainty. She sold only a few garments in the store of her own design. A second store, Cachet, was opened in Takapuna in 1978. In 1979, her husband left his job as a design engineer and they formed their label ''Zambesi''. That same year, they op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margi Robertson
Margarita Anna Robertson ( Gladiadis, born 1953) is a New Zealand fashion designer and the founder and creative director of the New Zealand fashion line NOM*d. In the 2018 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the fashion industry. She is credited with helping define what is known as "the New Zealand Look." In the words of the New Zealand Fashion Museum, "Margarita Robertson’s status as a national designer of significant cultural importance is recognised in public collections and by her inclusion in recent exhibitions, biographies and histories on New Zealand fashion." In 2011, Robertson's creations were featured in a single-artist exhibition held at the Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore, July 28–2 September. Background Robertson was born in Clyde in 1953 and grew up in Dunedin. Her sister is Elisabeth Findlay, founder of Zambesi, another New Zealand fashion line. She opened her first boutique in Dunedin in 1975, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Fisher (fashion)
Gurshon "Gus" Fisher (11 December 1920 – 20 July 2010) was a philanthropist and leading figure in the New Zealand fashion industry. He headed the fashion house El Jay for 50 years, introducing Parisian style to New Zealand, and was the New Zealand agent for Christian Dior for 33 years from 1955 until 1988. In 2001 The University of Auckland opened the Gus Fisher Gallery, named after him in recognition of his contribution to the gallery. In 2010, Fisher and his wife Irene were the recipients of the fifth annual Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage. Gus had a love of beauty and he was a passionate collector of painting, sculpture and objects d'arte. Life Fisher was born in Paraparaumu, New Zealand on 11 December 1920. He was the youngest of six children of parents Michael Fisher and Fanny Dabscheck. His father, Michael was a Jewish immigrant from Shumsk in the Ukraine (then Russia) via London. His mother, Fanny was the daughter of Russian Jews who had immigrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Fisher Gallery
Gus Fisher Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the Kenneth Myers Centre, a historic building restored in 2000 with the help of the gallery's patron, Gus Fisher (1920–2010). The gallery exhibits a regular programme of socially engaged exhibitions that showcase international and local artists, and an extensive public programme including performances, film screenings, workshops, panel discussions and family activities. Gus Fisher Gallery opened in 2001 as a venue for the first Auckland Triennial, led by inaugural Director Robin Stoney. From 2006 to 2017, it was operated by the University of Auckland Centre for Art Research, which was established in 2006 to support and develop the academic and research activities connected with Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland Art Collection, and Window, and was led by Director, Linda Tyler. The gallery aimed to present a balanced and relevant programme of curated exhibitions of contemporar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titirangi, New Zealand
Titirangi is a suburb of West Auckland in the Waitākere Ranges local board area of the city of Auckland in northern New Zealand. It is an affluent, residential suburb located 13 kilometres (8 miles) to the southwest of the Auckland city centre, at the southern end of the Waitākere Ranges. In the Māori language "Titirangi" means "long streaks of cloud in the sky", but this is often given as "fringe of heaven". History In the mid-19th century, the Manukau Harbour shoreline was primarily used for kauri logging. In December 1855, John Bishop and Thomas Canty acquired 227 acres of land from John Langford, a land dealer who acquired the area from a Crown grant. Most of the kauri forest was harvested for wood by the early settlers. The first landowner at Titirangi was John Kelly, who bought 103 acres in 1848. Most of Titirangi and the surrounding area developed as farmland in the 1860s. For communities in the south of Titirangi, most contact to the outside world was through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In New Zealand
This is a list of museums in New Zealand, including regional museums, local museums, art galleries and maritime museums. See also * New Zealand Fashion Museum * List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines * Tourism in New Zealand * Culture of New Zealand References External links NZMuseums website National Services Te Paerangi {{DEFAULTSORT:Museums In New Zealand Lists of museums in New Zealand, Museums in New Zealand, * New Zealand education-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In New Zealand
This is a list of museums in New Zealand, including regional museums, local museums, art galleries and maritime museums. See also * New Zealand Fashion Museum * List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines This is a list of groups involved in Railway preservation in New Zealand. Members of the Federation of Rail Organisations New Zealand Members of the Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand: Railway museums, heritage lines, societies, cl ... * Tourism in New Zealand * Culture of New Zealand References External links NZMuseums website National Services Te Paerangi {{DEFAULTSORT:Museums In New Zealand * New Zealand education-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion Museums
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is ''trending''. Everything that is considered ''fashion'' is available and popularized by the fashion system (industry and media). Given the rise in mass production of commodities and clothing at lower prices and global reach, sustainability has become an urgent issue among politicians, brands, and consumers. Definitions The French word , meaning "fashion", dates as far back as 1482, while the English word denoting something "in style" dates only to the 16th century. Other words exist related to concepts of style and appeal that precede ''mode''. In the 12th and 13th century Old French the concept of elegance begins to appear in the context of aristocratic preferences to enhance beauty and display refinement, and , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
