Detail from designer Iris van Herpen from her Lucid collection, FW 2016, Paris Fashion Week, March 8 2016 Photo: Supplied
The rise of fast fashion, the move towards zero waste garments, and the abandonment of catwalks by designers who instead market their work online, are just some of the seismic shifts happening in the fashion world. So does this add up to the End of Fashion?
A conference debating just this is being hosted by Massey's College of Creative Arts. Lynn Freeman spoke to Professor Vicki Karaminas from Massey University, and Claire Regnault, Senior Curator of New Zealand History & Culture at Te Papa.
