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Blurring the lines between fashion, adornment, and cultural storytelling, designer and stylist Charli Nicholls (Ngāti Tamaterā) is forging a deeply personal design language through her label, @charlinikora. Grounded in mātauranga Māori and a reverence for handmade craft, Nicholls creates custom-made crochet and raranga pieces that feel sculptural, intricate, and intentionally slow.

For FQ’s Winter 2026 issue, she collaborated with contributor @katiebegbie on Te Ao Raranga: A Woven World — a fashion story exploring the layered cultural histories and craft traditions shaping contemporary fashion in Aotearoa.

Visit FQ.co.nz to read the interview in full.
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Te ao raranga featured in latest Winter26 @fashionquarterly magazine. Big thank you 🩵

Katie and I wanted to capture the diverse cultures shaping fashion within contemporary Aotearoa, bringing together locally made garments influenced by Māori weaving, European hand-sewing traditions, Taiwanese heritage prints, and Chinese design elements. You can shop these designers via the Buy Guide!

Photography by Katie Begbie
Styling by Charli Nicholls
Hair by Tenielle Gillies
Makeup by Sara Sareye
Model Arna Rose Solomon-Banks at 62 Management
Model Khanitha Harper at 62 Management
Graphic design by Coco Dowling
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FW2025 Closing Performance !! 

Styled and designed pieces for the most incredible people in the world and I’m so grateful for it 😭🪷 Thank you once again @maesteal for bringing me on board🤍 Styling the Third Act performers with @nikirreii @gracewwei thank you girls for making pieces as well and rolling with my vision 🫶🏼🫶🏼 Thank you also so much to all the local designers in Tāmaki for letting us style your work your art is so important 💐💐

Pics by @isobellatur and @connorjaward 

Creative Directed and Curated by
@coppermaesteal @maesteal

Performance Art Directed by
@coppermaesteal @egosface @imyourvvvenus @cypris.afakasi

Performances by
@coppermaesteal @jakobxkr @xin_with_ji @egosface @imyourvvvenus @jonjon.tt @cypris.afakasi @jakey_mcc @itsnot_wiseman @hiinna.a @iiiratahana @lilhoneycxnt nathanwaqalevu @thehoodsupreme

Fashion Designs by
@coppermaesteal @imyourvvvenus @egosface @kongcoredesign @weiwenstore @__6anshee @chlostrophobia @amoda_official @_zigliani_ @ella.cook.archive @stillnotbil
@siri.enee @bethdavids0n @seini_tries @theonlypelham

Styled by
@angekongg @nikirreii @gracewwei

Makeup by
@laneworrallart @eloisematava1 _haileeterexa johnmua 

Music Mixed by
@teddyyyfm @monoga.my

Motion Graphics by
@dingfly.lu

Stage Managed by
@fka.manilasativa @myleslknowles

Assisted by
@princesspanocha @nikirreii @emma_annand

Digital BTS Photography by
@isobellatur 

Film BTS Photography by
@connorjaward

BTS Videography by
@jj.farry

Poster Image Photography by
@connorjaward
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