To celebrate our favourite-by-miles time of year, we asked three leading — and very different — fashion houses to create images that capture the beauty of Auckland when the sun’s out. Shot exclusively for Metro, here are the results.
Main image: Ngahuia Williams in Zambesi. Photo: Marissa Findlay. This article was first published in the January 2016 issue of Metro.
Trelise Cooper
One day I had the fleeting thought I could give myself over to rising and falling in all its tempos and variations.
The next day I had the fleeting thought that rising and falling was what I was after, what I had been waiting for and swimming in all the way along.
Harman Grubiša
The third day was a day of miracles: the sun came out, the sea settled and the pohutukawa learnt to flower.
Zambesi
On the fourth day I came home with an armful of clouds and they were good for me.
The sea the next day had a dirty edge. Even so further out a brilliant colour was coming back into its massive body.
On the sixth day I saw the horizon and on it the softened peaks of a land that cannot be named.
— An excerpt from Tidal by Dinah Hawken, from her new book of poems, Ocean and Stone (VUP, $35).
Welcome to the new issue of Metro! Our annual Auckland Schools report card! Twenty-four great Aucklanders on how to fix greater Auckland! The best sweet treats in Tāmaki! The best (and worst) tasting toothpastes! A history of the Waitangi Tribunal! The troubling state of our public toilets! The return of the NZIFF! Derek Jarman comes to town! Our favourite designers' favourite designers! Out the back in the new Gow Langsford! Satellites! Milli Jannides' studio! Lauren Gunn's clothes! @chamfy's polls! And more, much more!