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Kiri Marie Nathan MNZM (born 1972) is a New Zealand Māori fashion designer, entrepreneur, cultural ambassador and mentor, based in Auckland.She is co-founder of the fashion brand Kiri Nathan, was the first Māori designer to open New Zealand Fashion Week, and was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and the fashion industry.
KMD Brands, formerly Kathmandu Holdings, is a global outdoor, lifestyle and sports company consisting of three brands: Kathmandu, Rip Curl and Oboz.Kathmandu was founded in 1987 in New Zealand and specialises in clothing and equipment for travel and the outdoors.
The weaving process (whatu) for clothing was performed not with a loom and shuttle but with the threads being manipulated and tied with fingers. A strong thread is fastened tautly in a horizontal position between two or four upright weaving sticks (turuturu). To this thread (tawhiu) are attached the upper ends of the warp or vertical threads (io).
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For our own (small) part, we're focusing on spending our money with small, independently-owned businesses, when we can, rather than big-box stores and faceless, international corporati
The restructuring and sale of state-owned enterprises in the 1990s reduced government's role in the economy. Many of the largest companies lost ground and new enterprises were established. [ 1 ] New Zealand companies are dependent on international trade, mainly with Australia, the European Union, the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and ...
Vintage Swanndri clothing label from approximately the 1960s The Swanndri, or "swanny" as it has been dubbed, was designed by William Broome (1873–1942). Since he registered Swanndri as a trademark on 23 December 1913, it has become an iconic New Zealand garment, and the term "swanny" has, to some extent at least, become a genericised ...