Navigation for Nine To Noon

Celebrating Pacific & Māori fashion designers, artists and performers

Celebrating Pacific & Māori fashion designers, artists and performers

Artists, Feeonaa Wall and Ani O'Neill talk about the collective of Pacific and Māori fashion designers, artists and performers whose work in Auckland gave rise to a new urban style in the 1990's. A retrospective exhibition, Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists opens at the Auckland Art Gallery this Saturday.

Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists (installation view), 2018. Photograph by Maarten Holl, Te Papa.

Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion (installation view - Rosanna Raymond, RePATCHtriation, 1999-2013), 2018. Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa.

Pacific Sisters, Kaitiaki with a K; Tāulaolevai Keeper of the water (Tuna), (installation view), Te Papa, 2018. Photograph by Kate Whitley.

Vivienne Haldane 1993 © Part of Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera |Fashion Activists developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Vivienne Haldane 1993 © Part of Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera |Fashion Activists developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Vivienne Haldane 1993 © Part of Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera |Fashion Activists developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Vivienne Haldane 1993 © Part of Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera |Fashion Activists developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Vivienne Haldane 1993 © Part of Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera |Fashion Activists developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.