Kia ora e te whānau o W3 – we have one more event for 2022 which will be a night of intrigue!

We love nothing more than celebrating our Waiheke wāhine toa. Descending from Ngāti Hako and Ngāti Pāoa, Jeanine Clarkin is one of the mana whenua on Waiheke Island, where she has resided for the past 18 years. Jeanine is known around the world as a champion of indigenous Māori fashion having shown her collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Samoa, Hawaii, Geneva, Saskatoon, London and Paris including a presentation at Musée du Quai Branly as part of their Oceania exhibition in 2019.

She launched her 2023 range in Paris recently, despite her luggage, including all of her collection, going missing on the way over!

When she started in 1994, her intention was to provide young urban Māori with clothes that they could wear to express who they were. Her design…