By Delilah Gow
Model, artist and all-round creative Delilah Gow takes Sans Pareil backstage, front row and everywhere in between at Tāmaki Makaurau’s favourite indie Fashion week: Te Wiki Āhua O Aotearoa.
Material Girl was all things shining, shimmering, splendid. It started like a dream, with a performance where a web-like structure drew a model slowly into its centre, setting the tone for a story of transformation and entanglement.
Images by Bailey Fleming and Jono Ong
On the runway we saw iridescent fabrics. Blues and soft purples shimmered like twilight skies, the garments alive with a siren-like energy. The models walked in an intriguing star-shaped formation, as if each look represented a different facet of self – past, present, or future.
RITE by FRINGES & ANTHURIUM featuring JESS MACRAE
Rite by Fringes, Anthurium and Jess Macrae was an incredibly hypnotic, non-traditional take on a fashion show, blurring the line between fashion and performance art. Three models entered bound together in a single length of fabric, which was then cut, pinned, and altered before the audience’s eyes into three distinct looks, each adorned with silver chain and makeup.
The act of construction itself became the show; an exploration of process, impermanence, and transformation. In the end, nothing remains fixed. The dresses, created in real time, were designed to be dismantled along with the jewellery, leaving only the memory of a moment of originality.
Image by Felix Jackson
Image by Aliyah Edwards
Image by Paris Munro
Image by Aliyah Edwards
Image by Brendon Tipene
