New Zealand Clothing Industry
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New Zealand Fashion Industry Resources
- 7 Orcas Software Limited
- Apparel Master
- Armstrong-White Automation
- Backhouse
- Canterbury Leather International
- Designer Exposure
- Fashion HQ
- Fashion Mission
- Hoof
- Icebreaker Pure Merino
- New Zealand Customs Agency
- New Zealand Fashion Week
- New Zealand Herald Fashion
- Poppet Baby Wear
- Sherborne Packaging Ltd
- Universal College of Learning (UCOL)
- Volley Clothing
Merino Wool, Sheepskin and Weatherwear
Natural fibres run through this directory. Icebreaker Pure Merino GmbH, in Wellington, makes finely spun merino wool garments for active adventurers and urban travelers alike; its story begins in 1994, when Jeremy Moon met Marlborough merino farmer Brian Brakenridge and was shown prototype thermal underwear made from 100% pure New Zealand merino wool. Canterbury Leather International Limited, established in 1974 in Christchurch, manufactures high quality sheepskin and shearling apparel made in New Zealand — men's and women's garments, hats, footwear, slippers, bags and accessories — and trades worldwide as an export award winning company. Backhouse traces New Zealand's famous wet weather wear back to the 19th century, when its predecessors were made from the sails of ships which plied the Pacific and impregnated with linseed oil; today's coats and jackets are fashioned from the finest 100% long staple Egyptian cotton and are still all made in New Zealand. Merino appears again in the children's listings, where Poppet Baby Wear in Auckland uses 100% silk and 100% NZ merino wool for hand made formal baby wear.
Children's, Baby and Tennis Clothing
Three listings serve young customers. Poppet Baby Wear is an online store specialising in hand made, high quality formal baby wear for occasions such as Christenings and weddings, with all garments designed by Marian and hand made in Torbay, Auckland. Hoof is the home of "funky footwear for little feet", an online children's shoe retailer inviting parents to make their kids' feet the coolest in town. Volley Clothing, manufactured in New Zealand, specialises in children's tennis clothing — comfortable, colorful styles sourced for young players by a family of avid tennis players who wanted a greater choice of fashionable tennis clothing.
Retail, Media, Education and Fashion Support
Designer Exposure in Newmarket, Auckland features an extensive range of new and recycled designer clothing, including Manolo Blahnik, Prada and Gucci shoes, as an online and brick & mortar specialty store for women's fashion. For news coverage, New Zealand Herald Fashion comes from NZME, an integrated media company with market leading newspapers, radio and digital magazines that report on fashion among many topics. Fashion HQ in Wellington — the country's first and only apparel sector incubator — supports up to ten creative enterprises with potential for rapid financial growth, while the Universal College of Learning (UCOL) offers a prestigious Fashion degree whose Graduate Fashion Show has become one to watch; UCOL's Wanganui School of Design also teaches Computer Graphic Design. Trade visitors will also find the New Zealand Customs Agency page and the New Zealand Fashion Week page linked with the resources at the top of this directory.
Software, Machinery, Services and Packaging
Behind the brands sit the businesses that keep production and retail running. 7 Orcas Software Limited in Petone, Wellington built Style, a business system designed specifically for apparel, covering sales orders, purchase orders and stock control, with price calculations, sales order planning, requirements planning, reporting and critical path management. Armstrong-White Automation (Prosail), in Greenhithe, Auckland, designs and builds flat bed Plotters, Plotter Cutters and digitizers for the fabric and Textile industries, sold complete with Nesting and machine control software. Apparel Master covers uniform rentals, and Sherborne Packaging Ltd in Albany, Auckland offers custom printed packaging for the retail and food industry — paper and plastic carry bags, stand pouches, decorative tins, boxes, wrapping paper and tissue paper — including special packing for retail items such as ties, scarves and socks. Fashion Mission, a fashion and beauty guide, completes the listings.
Anyone contacting a business in this directory should confirm current details directly, using the websites, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses preserved in the listings below, because company details can change over time. You can also search for clothing, textiles, apparel or fashion around the world.
New Zealand Fashion Industry Companies
Listings are given with the descriptions, addresses and contact details supplied for each business.
7 Orcas Software Limited
7 Orcas Software Limited: Style is a business system designed specifically for apparel. It facilitates the creation and processing of sales orders, purchase orders and stock control. Added to its base system, Style includes higher level processes such as price calculations, sales order planning, finished and raw goods requirements planning, reporting and analysis tools and critical path management. Style is configurable. Multiple companies, warehouses, languages, currencies and documentation formats are possible. Many of the default processing rules can easily be amended to suit changing business situations. Address: 36 Riddlers Crescent, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand Phone: +64 4 5667897 E-mail: info@7orcas.com Contact: John Stewart
Apparel ERP (Business) Software
New Zealand
Apparel Master
Apparel Master: uniform rentals
Armstrong-White Automation
Armstrong-White Automation: (Prosail) [New Zealand] they design and build accurate, affordable flat bed single or low layer Plotters, Plotter Cutters and digitizers for the fabric and Textile industries. All their machines are sold complete with Nesting and machine control software and either PanelMaker, a 2D pattern design program or ProSail, sail design software. other modules include Tent design, Hypar/pagoda design and more. Address: 2 Kereru Grove, Greenhithe, North Shore City, Auckland, 0632 New Zealand Phone: +64 9 4137642 prosail@xtra.co.nz contact: James Cardow
Plotters for fabrics
Backhouse
Backhouse: New Zealand's original weatherwear. For the origins of New Zealand's famous wet weather wear, you have to go back to the 19th century, when the predecessors of today's Backhouse coats and jackets were made from the sails of ships which plied the Pacific. Impregnated with linseed oil, the sailcloth made incredibly tough, all weather clothing, which was soon adopted by farmers and drovers, as projection against the island's wet climate. These days Backhouse coats and jackets are classics, as tough as they ever were, but made by rather more sophisticated methods. They're fashioned from the finest 100% long staple Egyptian cotton, closely woven and oil impregnated to a traditional formula, which provides totoal wind and waterproofing, exceptional abrasion resistance and greatly longevity. And now, as then, they're all made in New Zealand.
Canterbury Leather International Limited
Canterbury Leather International Limited: Manufacturers of high quality sheepskin and shearling apparel made in New Zealand. Export award winning company trading worldwide to internationally known companies. Men's and Women's garments, hats, footwear, slippers, bags and accessories. Large factory allowing high capacity production. Established 1974. Address: 71 Sturrocks Road, Redwood P.O. Box 5241, Redwood Christchurch 8005 New Zealand Phone: 064 3 3524382 Fax: 064 3 3522543 Email: enquiries@cantyleather.co.nz Contact: Heather Jones - Webmaster
Manufacturer Item # 1: shearling garments
Manufacturer Item # 2: leather apparel
Manufacturer Item # 3: sheepskin footwear
Manufacturer Item # 4: sheepskin ugg boots
Manufacturer Item # 5: wool slippers
Manufacturer Item # 6: sheepskin coats
Manufacturer Item # 7: Made in New Zealand
Designer Exposure
Designer Exposure: Features an extensive range of new and recycled designer clothing, including Manolo Blahnik, Prada and Gucci shoes. Address: 14 Gillies Avenue, Newmarket Auckland New Zealand Phone: 310 869 6030 or 310 869 6030 Email: tony.katavich@webenz.co.nz Contact: Tony Katavich, SEO
Gender: Women's
Store Type: Online and Brick & Mortar
Retail Category: Specialty
Fashion HQ
Fashion HQ (New Zealand): Fashion HQ is Wellington's first and only apparel sector incubator. It supports up to ten creative enterprises that have potential for rapid financial growth. Fashion HQ is looking to recruit companies from the wider apparel sector who have a clear vision and are passionate and committed to growing their business. Their vision is to be the most successful developer of high growth apparel businesses in New Zealand. Their mission is to enable apparel start up businesses to be successful in the national and global economy by providing best practice business support and quality infrastructure.
Category: Fashion Incubator
Fashion Mission
Fashion Mission: Fashion Mission is Europe's leading exclusive fashion & beauty-specific “Start page” and fashion guide for everyone interested in fashion, style, beauty, luxury travel, lifestyle and design. Whether you're an industry professional or just an Internet user interested in fashion & style, this is the place to start your journey.
Hoof
Hoof: hoof is the home of "funky footwear for little feet". They hope you enjoy your online children's shoe shopping experience with them. Make your kids feet the coolest in town!
Children's Shoe Retailer
Icebreaker Pure Merino GmbH
Icebreaker Pure Merino GmbH (Wellington, New Zealand): Icebreaker garments offer unmatched technical performance in the outdoors. Finely spun merino wool garments like Icebreaker's Sprint/pace are perfect for the active adventurers and urban travelers alike. The fabric disperses perspiration and provides warmth, even when wet, and the compressible, easy to pack long sleeved shirt is form fitting and keeps its shape. Icebreaker, like many great things, started by accident. In 1994, an American girlfriend introduced Jeremy Moon to a merino wool farmer she had stayed with as she backpacked around New Zealand. Brian Brakenridge lived on an isolated island in Marlborough with his family and 8,000 sheep. He had developed some prototype thermal underwear made from 100% pure New Zealand merino wool. He threw Jeremy a piece of this extraordinary fabric across the lunch table. It felt soft and sensual, looked lustrous and was totally natural. That was simply the start.
New Zealand Herald Fashion
New Zealand Herald Fashion: NZME is New Zealand integrated media company with a portfolio of market leading newspapers, radio and digital magazines. They report on many topics including fashion.
Poppet Baby Wear
Poppet Baby Wear (New Zealand): is an online store specialising in hand made, high quality formal baby wear, for occasions such as Christenings, weddings (flower girls etc.) as well as general baby clothing. They are aimed at the higher end of the market, using 100% silk and also 100% NZ merino wool etc. All garments are designed by Marian and hand made. Address 3a Marama Street Torbay Auckland NZ 10 Ph 64-9-473-6800 Fax 64-9-473-6802 email m.ramonlong@gmail.com Contact: Marian Long
Christening Gowns Retailer
Christening Rompers Retailer
Baby Clothing Retailer
Sherborne Packaging Ltd
Sherborne Packaging Ltd: Sherborne Packaging offers a comprehensive range of custom printed packaging for the retail and food industry. Resource for special packing for retail items such as ties, scarves, socks etc. From a decorative tin to a six color embossed box, they are able to offer the best container at the optimum price. Address: 5d Piermark Drive, PO Box 300-333 Albany Auckland 1331 New Zealand Phone: 64 9 415 8352 or 64 9 415 8341 Fax: 64 9 415 8392 Email: info@sherborne.co.nz Contact: Christine Sherborne (Director)
Manufacturer Item # 1: Paper Carry Bags
Manufacturer Item # 2: Plastic Carry Bags
Manufacturer Item # 3: Stand Pouches
Manufacturer Item # 4: Decorative Tins
Manufacturer Item # 5: Boxes
Manufacturer Item # 6: Wrapping Paper
Manufacturer Item # 7: Tissue Paper
Universal College of Learning (UCOL)
Universal College of Learning (UCOL) [New Zealand]: New Zealand is now an impressive force on the world's fashion stage. Their designers have become an aspect of national pride, with many cities developing fashion incubators to nurture and encourage fledgling designers. Designers, like their graduates from UCOL's prestigious Fashion degree, with creative and talented lecturers, guide you through your study. The Graduate Fashion Show has become one to watch and a number of their graduates have gone on to establish successful labels in the fashion industry. UCOL's Wanganui School of Design is immensely proud of the sought after graduates from the Computer Graphic Design courses. This is an ever-evolving area and graduates with up-to-the minute skills and knowledge in design and multi-media are highly coveted by the industry. Their high-tech, state-of-the art equipment and fantastic lecturers means that they can offer their students the best of everything and the results speak for themselves.
Volley Clothing
Volley Clothing (New Zealand): As a family of avid tennis players they often found it difficult to find specialist children's tennis clothing that had clothes that were comfortable, colorful and a little bit different from what everyone else was wearing. Volley Clothing specialises in children's tennis clothing to provide children with a greater choice of fashionable tennis clothing. They have sourced the fabrics from around the world to get exactly the right combination of comfort and color. Volley Clothing is manufactured in New Zealand to allow them to keep a close eye on quality and to give them greater flexibility to develop new styles and ranges.
Children's Tennis Clothing Store
Tennis Clothing
Children's Clothing Retailer
Common Questions
What is Icebreaker merino clothing, and how did the company start?
Icebreaker, based in Wellington, New Zealand, makes finely spun merino wool garments that offer unmatched technical performance in the outdoors: the fabric disperses perspiration and provides warmth, even when wet. Icebreaker started by accident in 1994, when Jeremy Moon was introduced to merino wool farmer Brian Brakenridge, who lived on an isolated island in Marlborough with his family and 8,000 sheep and had developed prototype thermal underwear made from 100% pure New Zealand merino wool.
What does Canterbury Leather International make, and when was it established?
Canterbury Leather International Limited manufactures high quality sheepskin and shearling apparel made in New Zealand, including men's and women's garments, hats, footwear, slippers, bags and accessories, as well as shearling garments, leather apparel, sheepskin footwear, sheepskin ugg boots, wool slippers and sheepskin coats. The export award winning company was established in 1974 and is based at 71 Sturrocks Road, Redwood, Christchurch.
What is Fashion HQ in Wellington?
Fashion HQ is Wellington's first and only apparel sector incubator. It supports up to ten creative enterprises that have potential for rapid financial growth, recruiting companies from the wider apparel sector who have a clear vision and are passionate and committed to growing their business. Its mission is to enable apparel start up businesses to be successful in the national and global economy by providing best practice business support and quality infrastructure.