Twenty-Seven Names kicked off Fashion Week and boy did it deliver. Mariah Carey’s sweet melodies blasted out of speakers, setting the scene for their Autumn/Winter 2014 collection, ‘I’m Lost’. Inspired by the surrealist artworks of Rene Magritte, Rachel and Anjali took cues from Magritte’s famed symbols – the bowler hat and hearts a prominent feature in the collection. The collection strongly captures the Twenty-Seven Names aesthetic, the girl at a crossroads between dressing in floaty feminine dresses and all silk ensembles versus the tomboy in cuffed trousers, matching page boy blazer and bowler hat. Rachel and Anjali unabashedly design for…

With less than a week until New Zealand Fashion Week kicks off, I’m starting to find myself thinking a lot about all the small errands I need to get done by Monday. Things like changing my flights, picking up drycleaning, picking up shoes from the cobbler, picking up laybys, and finally getting around to packing my bag. The latter seems the most daunting, as there’s something so final about travelling with such a finite number of items in your suitcase. For those of you who aren’t aware, the week is split into two parts, New Zealand Fashion Week and New…