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Click play to listen to MsBehaviour talking about New Zealand Fashion Week, Street Style & Desktop Design on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM.

The big buzz in Auckland right now is around Air New Zealand Fashion Week. Four days of catwalk shows, air kissing and people watching. It's an annual showcase of the best designer threads, jewellery & accessories from Aotearoa, which I rate as some of the most creative I have seen in my years of travelling. It's far less of a circus here than overseas, where many of the Stylesetters and Fashpack look like they have raided the leftovers of a jumble sale. Thankfully New Zealand is far enough away from the maddening crowds of trend followers, for our designers to come up with clothes that you can actual wear in Real Life.

Read Fashion, Street Style & Desktop Design in full at the Big Idea.

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Listen to Be Colourful with MsBehaviour & Wammo on Kiwi FM

Colour is very important to me and strongly affects the way I feel. It was the long, grey UK days that made me flee to New Zealand, a land filled with sunlight and vivid colours. I love the tropical blues, deep lush greens and bleached out beachside towns, like living 1970s movies shot on old 8mm film. The shimmering east coast with creamy white dunes, and the dark, dramatic west coast with inky black volcanic sand. I went through a few major colour phases throughout my early twenties. From the black years, to the blue years, an obsession with all things fluoro, then back to black with bright flashes. My current obsession is with bright vampy reds, and the deep rich purple I mix for my hair thanks to Fudge Paintbox.

Read Be Colourful at the Big Idea, the home of New Zealand's Creative Community.