Playing Favourites with fashion icon Doris de Pont

As a fashion maker and curator Doris de Pont’s career has been dedicated to what we wear and why. And it’s in the blood: both of her grandfathers contributed to the garment industry in the Netherlands, where her parents emigrated from just before her birth.

After a fabulous career in design and business  in 2010 Du Pont founded the innovative New Zealand Fashion Museum. Now she is organising Aotearoa’s contribution to Global Fashion Assembly, a hybrid event moving around different far-flung places in the world, October 21-23 with a kaupapa of decolonising fashion.

Doris De Pont (PHOTO: Marcel Tromp)

White Swan Rd kids, circa 1959. (PHOTO: Supplied)

GrandfatherJacques van den Brekel centre with brothers Huub and Frans in front of their tailoring premises Heuvelstraat, Tilburg, Netherlands circa 1918 (PHOTO: Supplied)

Bamako, Mali. Wedding guest, 2019. (PHOTO: Supplied)

Moana Currents exhibition, Te Uru Waitakere, Sept 2019 (PHOTO: Sam Hartnett)

to fashion exhibition Auckland Arts Festival 2022, Britomart. (PHOTO: Joe Hockley Photo)

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