NICOLE VAN VUUREN | NVV WORLD

KRISTA means FUN, LOVE, PLAY, OPPORTUNITY <33.
KRISTA cares about environmental sustainability and financial and physical accessibility. Where possible, secondhand and/or local materials are sourced, lab grown gemstones are selected over mined natural stones and custom orders are preferred to minimise waste. All wearable items can be custom ordered in any size/length and don’t cost a pretty penny. KRISTA has a fine art degree wherein she built a practice based on naivety, play and ornamentation. Today she works primarily with sculpture, jewellery and apparel. All pieces are hand-made in Naarm on stolen Wurundjeri Country.

Nicole van Vuuren is just a girl exploring fashion through mundane interactions between body and cloth, skin and fabric, entity and boundary; establishing a relationship via the space in between.
Creating an aesthetic which favours the imperfect, unfinished, broken or unloved. Each piece is unique and made exclusively by hand in her Tamaki Makaurau studio. Through relationships with other New Zealand Designers, and the Auckland City Mission offcuts and scrap fabrics are collected from the community and carefully curated into new garments, minimising textile waste ending up in landfill.

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