In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm in the tussocked hills of the Maniatoto region of Central Otago. The main feature of this new attraction was the more than 220 high-end fashion garments on display. It has been called one of the most significant collections of its kind in Australasia. And it was housed in an old tractor shed.
It had been amassed by J Eden Hore, a successful but quietly spoken high-country farmer - a man of many contrasts. He embodied and boldly defied the stereotype of the 'Southern Man', confidently forging his own idiosyncratic path through life.
Central Otago Couture tells the compelling story of his string of eccentric and memorable obsessions, from Miss New Zealand shows to a menagerie of animals, at the centre of which was his collection of over 270 high-fashion garments.
The collection's continued existence, acquired by the Central Otago District Council, honours and recognises the skills of New Zealand creatives and designers of the 1970s and 1980s at their very best, and represents a unique slice of couture fashion not found anywhere else in the country.
To this end, acclaimed fashion photographer Derek Henderson has captured these extraordinary garments in the empty majesty of the Central Otago landscapes that Eden Hore so loved, bringing these stories to life for a new generation.
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Fully illustrated throughout
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Höhe: 280 mm
Breite: 190 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-991072-05-4 (9781991072054)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jane Malthus is a dress historian and honorary
curator for the dress collection at Tuhura Otago Museum, and has an academic
background in textiles, clothing and fashion, history and fine arts. Her
research explores historical, social and cultural intersections and
implications of dress and textiles used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century
New Zealanders. Involved with Eden Hore's collection since the 1980s, she is a
current patron and steering group member for Eden Hore Central Otago and a
founding member of Costume & Textiles Aotearoa New Zealand.
Claire Regnault is Senior Curator New Zealand
Histories & Cultures at Te Papa. She is particularly interested in New
Zealand's dress histories, and associated industries including fashion
photography, textile design, retail and promotion. She is the author of Dressed:
Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1840 to 1910 (2021), winner
of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction; New
Zealand Gown of the Year (2003); and co-author of The Dress Circle: New
Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 (2010). She is the President of Costume
& Textiles Aotearoa New Zealand, and a member of the Eden Hore Central
Otago steering committee.
Derek Henderson is one of New Zealand's most prolific
photographers, with a wide-ranging portfolio that spans various genres; from
architecture, fashion, interiors, landscape and portraiture. Derek has
exhibited at fine art galleries throughout Australasia, with some of his
photographs in permanent collections, namely the National Gallery of Victoria,
Christchurch City Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and the Arts House Trust art
Collection.
J Eden Hore: Soldier, Farmer, Collector
Into the collection
Fabrics, fashion and designers
Farm to fashion
Competitive fashion
Into the landscape
Notes
About Eden Hore Central Otago
About the authors
About the photographer
Acknowledgements
Index
