Fashion

If you've ever admired a colourful, fabric brooch on someone's blouse - it might just be a Tamsin Cooper creation. Tamsin Cooper celebrates 10 years of design this year, and in that time her business… Audio

Brooklyn-based Maureen Callahan has worked as a writer for the New York Post as well as being a contributor for Vanity Fair - where she wrote about the extraordinary relationship between the late… Audio

Long-time fashion and beauty writer, Cecilie Geary, has just committed her five decades of experiences and memories to paper. After starting out as a copywriter, Cecilie wrote for the Auckland Star… Audio

Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan helped break down barriers for both Maori and women. Her fashion sense was also ground breaking, and some of her wardrobe now features in a Hawkes Bay gallery exhibition… Audio

The rise of the knitted shoe with CityLab writer Bonnie Tsui. Audio

Ari Seth Cohen is the creator of Advanced Style a street-style photographic blog documenting, in his words, the "fashion and wisdom of the senior set." The blog has since inspired a book and a… Audio

Gosia Piatek doesn't feel very 'Kiwi,' especially where her work ethic and hunger are concerned. On the communication-front she is also very direct-a trait she readily puts down to her 'European'… Audio

Almost a year since more than 1100 people were killed in the Rana Plaza clothes factory collapse, one of our top designers Francis Hooper explores where Kiwi designed clothes are made, and Pulitzer… Audio

The illegal global trade in snakeskins. Sarah Butler of The Guardian reports. Audio

Imagine that your mother is well known Wellington fashion designer Sophie Voon and your dad is the photographer for this thriving family business. If you've grown up in the fashion industry it would… Audio

When did pink become the colour for girls, and blue the colour for boys? Jo Paoletti is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, and she's spent decades researching the… Audio

Lindah Lepou is an award-winning Pasifika multi-media artist and fashion designer. Audio

From the cravat to the Windsor, the tie still has an important place in our schools, boardrooms and rugby clubs. With Thomas Fink, the author of 'The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie', Shelley Macrae of the… Audio

Doris de Pont has edited the book 'Black: The History of Black in Fashion, Society and Culture in New Zealand', which explores the cultural and historical relevance of black in this country. It was… Audio

In his book Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel, Nazi agent Hal Vaughan reveals her life as a secret agent; her long love affair with a Nazi master spy; her missions on behalf of German military… Audio

A curator of textiles and fashion at the Victoria & Albert museum, specialising in 19th century fashion. She has curated an exhibition called Unveiled: 200 years of wedding dress from the Victoria and… Audio

Sapna Samant looks at the cult of anime and Hello Kitty, the doll that was created in 1974. Audio

Kiwi designer Jyoti Morningstar lives between Bali and Auckland and has just launched a new style of yoga inspired clothes with a new business philosophy to boot. Audio

Jason Moon our Asian Affairs Producers talks to the winner of the mens section at this year's Pasifika Fashion show. Audio