New Zealand fashion

This guide aims to help you find information on New Zealand fashion and designers – in books, magazines, and online.

Explore our fashion resources

Search the catalogue for books on New Zealand design and designers:

• New Zealand designers
• New Zealand fashion
• New Zealand clothing and dress

Heritage photographs and illustrations

Costume and fashion images from the Christchurch City Libraries collection.

Fashion

Resources for the dedicated follower of fashion – books, magazines and web sites on the elements of style.

Wearable arts, costume & fashion design

Our page on wearable arts helps you find information about designing and making clothes, costumes and wearable arts.

Blog posts

• New Zealand Fashion in pictures: Kete Christchurch
• New Zealand Fashion in Pictures: Our Image Collection
• New Zealand Fashion in pictures: Our Flickr

Newspapers and magazines

Fashion and beauty

The New Zealand Herald fashion section includes local and international news, and interviews with fashion identities.

Fashion and design news

Stuff’s fashion section. The Life section in Wednesday's issue of Christchurch newspaper The Press has fashion information. 

New Zealand fashion quarterly

New Zealand’s major fashion magazine. Available in print, and in eMagazine format from RBdigital magazines and PressReader.

Papers Past

Search for historical examples of local fashions. Try changing the date to cover a particular period. For images, try selecting advertisements or illustrated captions.

Online resources

A selection of web resources with a New Zealand fashion focus.

• New Zealand Fashion Museum Online
  Explore their exhibitions and collections
• New Zealand Fashion Week
• Fashion and textile design from Te Ara
• Fashion from NZhistory
• View sets of Fashion photographs from Digital NZ
• Fashion shows and interviews from New Zealand on Screen
• Podcasts from Radio New Zealand including programmes on the miniskirt, flares, and black singlets.