Two Whangarei hairdressers have been working with top Northland fashion designers to stitch together support for organisations that help women find safety from physical and emotional harm.
Andrea McKay and Joel Hornell will stage a fashion extravaganza, Soo Tru … Sew True: The Runway Show, on Wednesday evening in conjunction with Whangarei Art Museum’s current exhibition, a tribute to original New Zealand fashion called “Home Sewn”, and the soon to be shown “Make Do and Mend, the Recycling Movement in NZ”.
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On the Night…
Tryphina House and Te Puna O Te Aroha Maori are used to dealing with full houses so it was fitting that a fashion show to raise funds for the two women’s refuge centres was a sellout.
About 250 people attended Wednesday night’s charity fashion extravaganza, Soo Tru … Sew True: The Runway Show, at Whangarei Art Museum to raise money for the women’s refuges. A further 60 people had to stand behind the sold-out seating.
Whangarei Art Museum director Scott Pothan said sales of the show’s premium seats alone had raised $5000, with the total from the other seats and associated sales yet to come in.
The entertaining, glamorous, fast-moving parade ended with a sombre message when representatives from the two organisations spoke about how communities had to stop tolerating family violence.
