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.
twenty-seven names
Today, New Zealand's fashion-forward were invited back into the metaphorical study hall as twenty-seven names presented their 2026/2027 Prospectus within Shed 10 for day two of New Zealand Fashion Week. Across the beloved label's two-decade tenure, Rachel Easting and Anjali Burnett have peppered the style landscape with hallmark florals, preppy lines and feminine flair—the kind that reads as pretty, sure, but is spiked with a tomboy edge, the type that carries you from picnics in the park to climbing trees with pure gusto. Those house codes showed across two semesters today: a study in how to pull off preppy without tipping into kitsch. Case in point—jacquard Debut pea jackets paired with matching minis, bubble skirts (no, they're not going anywhere) with fuchsia bomber jackets and loafers, pleated check skirts with slogan tees and hair bows. Everyone's favourite, the Freedom Jacket, returned in lime, navy and metallic jacquard. Books were bound and carried as handbags, exaggerated scrunchies, bows and fluid neckties ran rife, and tulips peeked through, almost the aftermath of days spent frolicking in the fields after class.
Juliette Hogan
From the opening of The Art of Style to tonight's show from Juliette Hogan, the simple pleasure of getting dressed—well, and for no reason whatsoever—is the uniting ethos of the shows so far. As Shed 10 fell into ambient mood lighting, lit only by a series of cascading fringe walkways, the Kiwi designer unveiled pieces from collection FOUR and the soon-to-be-released collection FIVE. As billowing, languid forms, abstract impressionist watercolours and tasteful fringing appeared, it was impossible to ignore that this presentation was made with the Amalfi Coast in mind. The female form was deftly captured—never confined by stiff, male-gaze constraints, but following the natural body, moving with you rather than against. Hems swept the floor, palettes carried from well-used painter's palettes to pastel sorbet shades, and the fringe read as tasteful, never tacky or trend-led. It was Juliette Hogan as we've known her for decades: never beholden to rigid signatures that leave no room for agility, but carrying those house codes in a way that feels contemporary, made for the all-encompassing woman of today—the one who owns her downtime and her special occasions in equally enviable form. Bridal featured in a few looks, too, both traditional—a classic, sleeveless gown—and made for the Phoebe Philo-coded bride, the one who orders a dirty martini once the I do's are done, somewhere in Italy in summer. Tonight marked a milestone, too. The room was packed—longstanding devotees and new faces alike —the kind of turnout that tells you everything about a designer's place in this industry and beyond. Because this year marks 20 years since Juliette Hogan's first NZFW show. Two decades of staying true without standing still; of knowing exactly who she dresses and letting that clarity evolve, season after season.