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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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Last Saturday I exhibited my new collection of Silver Lace Jewellery pieces adorned for the hair and as wrist cuffs at the @thekeep__ x @goblin_akl fashion show for @nzfashionwk 

Thank you to the keepers, so special to have been able to work alongside you and support one another through this collaborative process 

@lelajacobs 
@wilbur.hsu 
@orswo 
@shannen_young 
@outerlines.studio 

Id also like to give thanks to 
@goblin_akl 
@stephen_marr 
@aleph.beauty 
Alan Holt @weed_eagle on theremin 
@pegasusbaywine 
@non.world 
@nzfashionwk 

The Keep production team 
@eliza.co.nz
@wilbur.hsu
@shannen_young 
Stylist: @sothatstom 
Show assist: @samueluioka @_eloisethelabel_ @____kensa 
Key Makeup: @binhminhha 
Makeup assist: @weitingzh.ng  sophyiahilario
Graphic artist: @studiocatherine 
Lighting: @fredinski_ 
Photographer: @matt.hurley 
Photographer: @cheshirepictures 
Photographer: @scotthardy.co.nz 
Photographer: @madeleinebrighouse 
Videographer: @nick.shackleton  @tomcrampin  @workgroup.studio 
Backstage Photographer: @aileenchen___ & J.T.O

And my boyfriend for all the jewellery assistance to make this entire lace jewellery collection of mine come to life @robbbiiinnn
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