WORD 2025 celebrates Kiwi couture
Step away from the Insta feed, fashion lovers! A most unlikely collection of New Zealand garments from the 1970s and ‘80s gets a rare outing at the 2025 WORD Christchurch Festival.
Central Otago farmer Eden Hore amassed the collection of over 220 garments and displayed it in a converted tractor shed on his Māniatoto property until his death in 1997. Authors Jane Malthus and Claire Regnault, who tell Eden’s story in their book ‘Central Otago Couture’, are on the WORD programme in a session that includes a rare look at pieces from the collection.
Their book includes photographs by Derek Henderson, some reproduced here, that place garments from the collection in the Central Otago landscape.
