When it rains it pours, and in the case of NYFW that pertains both literally to the drizzly sky and to the amount of fire looks congregating outside the shows this year.

What do you get when you mix our fave girl Akiima, cute new face Rio Thake (who just walked for Calvin Klein in NYC) in a sonic tee and a bunch of bright colours, 80s shapes and ocean-inspired materials? Fyodor Golan’s backstage is what. 

Here’s all the cuteness that went on when we hung out with best mates, musician October (AKA Emma Logan) and filmmaker Manon in Auckland. Dressed up in Georgia Alice’s new collection.

You might remember honey babe Ch’lita from that time we handed her the keys to our Instagram for NZFW, when we snapped her being a cutie patootie, or when she flexed her photography skills for us recently. And now she’s back with tales of what goes down at fashion week in New Zealand (and why Wellington wins over Auckland)!

While she loves the creative side of modelling, she would love the industry to “start honouring talent over tokenism”, and while she thinks the huge demand for diversity is beautiful to see and a step towards a more representative industry, she feels they are still tokenized.