Dip your toe into art collecting with these DIY Arts Dinners
Come dine with me, but make it cool.
The Ōtepoti fashion show championing Aotearoa’s ‘real youth culture’
The collective has an aesthetic of cool, but earnestness and care for the future of fashion’s creativity are at its core.
15 charming wedding ideas that break the mould
Tips from Ensemble readers who did the big day, their way.
Why is New Zealand struggling to support arts journalism?
Arts media is under critical pressure, but a new report explores how to strengthen its future.
Rajiv Surendra does not care for online life
The considered content creator (and Mean Girls actor) spends 10 minutes a day on Instagram, tops.
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Editor Megha Kapoor wants more ‘staunchly local’ stories
The laser focused editorial leader on creating substantive content in a border-less media landscape.
The creative collective ripping through fashion norms
MaeSteal takes aim at the compulsive gendering of fashion, and the confines of cishet styling and ‘professionalism’.
Attention design nerds: Paul Boudens has some bold advice
Talking fonts, inspiration vs copying and timeless appeal with the legendary Belgian designer.
We think you’ll like these three young designers
Student editors meet student designers backstage at the Graduate Show
The young designers challenging the traditional fashion week route
A DIY grass-roots show is part of a tradition of young creatives subverting – and questioning – fashion industry conventions.
Fashion terrarium: Bringing the heat to the dunes
Models Minnie and Sinjun find refuge from a post apocalyptic heatwave.
