The New Zealand fashion brand WORLD is known for its bold designs. But a group of kiwis are dismayed and angered at some of WORLD's latest window displays. News Director Ximena Smith speaks to member of the Change the WORLD Brand Campaign, Phoebe Balle.
Justin Milano is kicking off the event Project17 held at AUT campus designed to inspire business starters and innovation. Justin helps exceptional entrepreneurs build thriving companies. As a serial entrepreneur and executive coach, he uses a unique blend of business coaching and leadership psychology to help entrepreneurs create breakthroughs. 95bFM reporter, Tess Barnett, catches up with him.
Replace cows with cannabis. These are the recent comments made by esteemed entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, on his most recent visit to New Zealand. He suggests if marijuana were to be legalised, dairy farmers could replace sections of their land designated for cows, over to industrial growing of cannabis.Adam Jacobson explores these issues in a recent report.
AUT’s Allan Blackman brings his best chemistry banter game to the studio today for Dear Science. He tells Ximena & Adam about a new polymer worm that’s been designed to move when it reacts with light, how the current Qatar diplomatic crisis is impacting the world’s supply of helium, as well as about how chemists have recently explained the reason why humans don’t constantly spontaneously combust.
Penelope brings in special guest Aimee Egdell, owner of Tatty's Designer Recycle. As a second generation secondhand dealer within the rag trade, what light can Aimee shed on her work and its history? Also: are monocles making a comeback? Mike's asking for a friend.
The director of Semi-Permanent, Simon Velvin, drops in to the studio to talk to Mikey about rotting corpses, expensive surfboards, secret Putin screenings, and what we can expect from the NZ design event currently enjoying its fifteenth year.
Just in time for Halloween, Penelope introduces us to The Vampire's Wife, the high-necked couture of supermodel-turned-designer Susie Cave (née Bick). Yes, that Susie Cave.
Once labelled the 'King of Cling', Azzedine Alaïa made his name covering, but certainly not hiding, the female form. Immortalised in popular film by Cher Horowitz as "like, a totally important designer", Pennie pays tribute to the man who adorned the body of every nineties 'somebody' from Stephanie Seymour to Grace Jones.
Kōkiri is the very first startup accelerator designed to help Māori go forward with their business ideas. Over the course of four months, 10 early stage companies will benefit from workshops, funding and just general help, thanks to Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Callaghan Innovation, as well as Creative HQ, Robett Hollis, Crowe Horwath and Ernst & Young Tahi.
Ian Musson, programme director of Te Wananga o Aotearoa, talks about Māori entrepreneurship, as starts by explaining what Kōkiri is trying to achieve, and why it has emerged now.
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