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.

We got out hands on the hottest tickets of the week and headed backstage at Stolen Girlfriends Club and Huffer.

Eee! NYFW is so close we can almost taste it! Last time we were in the neighbourhood, we hung out with lil’ superstar Akiima (or, Achol, as she’s also referred to) in between her many shows.

Before the excitement of NZFW 2018 kicked off, we took a few of our fave faces for a loop around K’ Road for some snaps and curious questions.

There were more than twenty seven reasons why backstage at Twenty Seven Names was the cutest sight to behold, but we know y’all are a busy bunch, so we’ll just fire off a couple…