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Individual fashion collection files from Starfish and Laurie Foon

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NameIndividual fashion collection files from Starfish and Laurie Foon
ProductionLaurie Foon; creating agency; 1997-2013; Wellington
Classificationfiles
Registration NumberCA001200
Credit lineGift of Laurie Foon, Starfish, 2014

Overview

Items relating to fashion collections created by the Wellington-based Starfish fashion label and Laurie Foon. The Starfish fashion collections span 1997-2013 (33 collections) and the Laurie Foon fashion collections span 2003-2009 (12 collections). Files contain a variety of items relating to the creation, marketing, distribution and sale of each fashion collection (printed ephemera, images, fabric swatches, sketches etc).

The collections are: Liberation (Summer 1997-1998) - Starfish; Urban Progression (Winter 1998) - Starfish; Fusion (Summer 1998-1999) - Starfish; Activate ’99 (Winter 1999) - Starfish; Transcend. (Summer 1999-2000) - Starfish; Instinct (Winter 2000) - Starfish; Rhythm (Summer 2000-2001) - Starfish; Ambition (Winter 2001) - Starfish; Nana D’s Parlour (Summer 2001-2002) - Starfish; The Ballad of Renewal (Winter 2002) - Starfish; Colonial (Summer 2002-2003) - Starfish; Global Citizen (Winter 2003) - Laurie Foon ( first collection for the label); Summer 03/04 - Starfish; Bazaar (Summer 2003-2004) - Laurie Foon; Winter 2004 - Starfish; Old Skool (Winter 2004) - Laurie Foon; Starfish 11 (Summer 2004-2005) - Starfish; Miss Mary Marle (Summer 2004-2005) - Laurie Foon; Joyride (Winter 2005) - Starfish; Pretty City (Winter 2005) - Laurie Foon; Percy and Peaches (Summer 2005-2006) - Starfish; Black Swan (Summer 2005-2006) - Laurie Foon; Wild Rose (Winter 2006) -Starfish; Wonderland (Winter 2006) - Laurie Foon; Home Sweet Home (Sumer 2006-2007) - Starfish; The Beautiful and the Damned (Summer 2006-2007) - Laurie Foon; Hi Flites (Winter 2007) - Starfish; Grey Gardens (Winter 2007) - Laurie Foon; Three Days in Golden Valley (Summer 2007-2008) - Starfish (first fully eco-friendly collection); The Twilight Prowl (Summer 2007-2008) - Laurie Foon; The Rendezvous (Winter 2008) - Starfish; Diamonds and Daggers (Winter 2008) - Laurie Foon; The Garden of Perfect Happiness (Summer 2008-2009) - Starfish; Necklace of Raindrops (Summer 2008-2009) - Laurie Foon; Heirloom (Winter 2009) - Starfish; Amazing Rare Thing (Winter 2009) - Laurie Foon (last collection for this label); Flight of Fancy (Summer 2009-2010) - Starfish; Brave New World (Winter 2010) - Starfish; Free Radicals (Summer 2010-2011) - Starfish; Seven Sisters (Winter 2011) - Starfish; Good Fortune (Summer 2011-2012) - Starfish; Lunatopia (Winter 2012) - Starfish; Common Thread (Summer 2012-2013) - Starfish; Queen of Extreme (Winter 2013) - Starfish;  In The (New) Beginning (Summer 2013-2014) - Starfish (this was a draft name and it was later renamed Wild Flower.  The collection was not fully realised and is not present in this series - see the workbook CA001201/005/0006).