Everything you need to know about New Zealand Fashion Week 2026

Fashion's most anticipated event of the year is back—and once again, in signature style (may we add), Remix is your home for New Zealand Fashion Week coverage and content. From show reports to street style, trend predictions to personal highlights and takeaway tidbits, your home of NZFW starts here. Check back daily for updates.
MONDAY, 17 AUGUST
NZFW 2026 Opening Event

Doris de Pont, Isabella Moore, Josh Emett—just three of the star-studded cast in tonight’s @nzfashionwk opening show, The Art of Style. Presented at Giltrap Group, the multi-level show—created and styled by Dan Ahwa—read as a love letter to playing dress-up in a well-cherished, extremely curated stash of Aotearoa design. In a world and industry increasingly feeling the weighted thumb of AI and algorithm-chasing, tonight’s opening show reminded us that we—the wearers, makers, creators and dreamers—are the real driving force. No technology can tell us otherwise. Because fashion is fun. It’s a shared, uniting art form, made all the better by culture, history, art and music—all of which spilt onto the runway tonight. And it’s everywhere, if you look: in art galleries and history books, in your family’s closet, in the outfit that feels a little wrong but somehow completely right. Fashion isn’t about giving in to the internet’s idea of what’s chic. It lies in what’s real, and that, as proven tonight, can’t be manufactured.
TUESDAY, 18 AUGUST
Caitlin Crisp
Tuesday at New Zealand Fashion Week began with headliner Caitlin Crisp, as guests arrived to fresh croissants and coffee before taking their seats for a collection that felt light, romantic and full of joy. For Summer 2026, Crisp leaned into the romance of movement, with ballet pink, soft merino, fine polka dots, delicate check, and feathers coming together across the collection. Signature silhouettes returned in new prints and fabrics, giving familiar favourites a fresh perspective. And then there were the dancers. Members of the Royal New Zealand Ballet appeared en pointe in select looks, moving through the space as Dirty Dancing’s I’ve Had the Time of My Life played overhead.
“I’ve always loved clothes that make you want to dance,” Crisp says — a sentiment that perfectly captured the spirit of the collection. Sunny, feminine and unmistakably pretty, it was a celebration of softness, movement and the sheer joy of getting dressed.