As October is Breast Cancer Month this week’s fabulous wearable takes the form a bizarre but very thoughtful bra – its Lynn Christiansen’s The Abbey of St Brassiere. The witty and outrageous Bizarre Bra™ section has been a firm favourite with WOW® entrants and audiences since it was established in 1995. Since then, more than… Read more »
Over 100 WOW® fans crammed into Te Papa’s Eyelight’s Gallery last Saturday to hear the maker of this week’s wearable speak. Its Bells for Her by Sean Purucker. Sean Purucker lives in LA where he works as a costume fabricator. He grew up, however in Alaska. Bells For Her harks back to his Alaskan childhood – to… Read more »
In 1883, Monet moved to the village of Giverny, downstream along the Seine from Vétheuil, retreating further from the hustle and bustle of modern life in Paris. In the late 1880s increased sales of his work through the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel’s gallery enabled him to purchase a house and modest estate. There, in a plot… Read more »
Over the past six weeks we have been having some serious problems with StoryPlace…. Before every session, it would miraculously lose all its colour!! Luckily, our young visitors and their caregivers were kind enough to help to collect enough red, blue and yellow to remedy the situation. Did you know that red and blue can… Read more »
Wellington has moved into full WOW® mode this week, and Te Papa is in the midst of the whirlwind. Yesterday morning we welcomed 50 international WOW® designers onto Te Papa’s marae, and hosted 250 designers, would-be entrants, fans and creatives at a Design Forum in the afternoon. Lynn Christiansen, the creator of this week’s spikey ‘wearable’, was the afternoon’s… Read more »
For the final of our WearableArt™ themed windows we take a look at Wellington High School’s Hannah who was inspired by a close up photo of seaweed. My name is Hannah van Seventer, I am currently taking Fashion Technology at Wellington High School. I am excited to have been given the opportunity to be a… Read more »
Our second to last of the WearableArt™ themed windows series features Lia of Queen Margaret College and her take on the Kowhai flower. My name is Lia Penny and I am currently in Year 13 studying Materials Technology at Queen Margaret College. I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to make a wearable… Read more »
Our WearableArt™ themed windows series continues with Maia from Wellington High School and another take on the Longhorn Beetle image from yesterday. My name is Maia Holder-Monk and I am in Year 13 student studying Fashion Technology at Wellington High School. The photo of the Longhorn Beetle jumped out at me with its vivid colours… Read more »
Our WearableArt™ themed windows series continues today with Rosie from Queen Margaret College and her take on a black bumblebee. My name is Rosie Reid and I am a year 13 student, studying materials technology at Queen Margret College. I enjoy the innovation and creativity associated with this subject, so being given the opportunity to… Read more »
Our series on our WearableArt™ themed windows at our Te Papa Stores continues with Jess from Queen Margaret College. My name is Jessica Bunnell and I’m a year 13 Queen Margaret student studying fashion technology. For my 2013 NCEA Materials Technology project, I was very privileged to be given the opportunity to make a WOW… Read more »