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The unexpected joys of clothing

Rebecca Wadey believes it’s not about the clothing itself. It’s about the memories we create with it, the stories we choose to tell through it.

Guy Coombes

Rebecca Wadey believes it’s not about the clothing itself. It’s about the memories we create with it, the stories we choose to tell through it.

Ensemble partnerships director Rebecca Wadey has 20+ years experience in fashion and beauty, having worked with companies including Kate Sylvester, Metro magazine, Esteé Lauder and Bobbi Brown.

OPINION: When Tāmaki Makaurau was put into a 140-day lockdown in August last year, my favourite items of clothing were 219km away at a Coromandel beach house we’d borrowed for the year. It was a fate worse than lockdown 1.0 when I’d had no flour, yeast or gin.

Without the fluffy powder blue and polka dot chenille bathrobe my godmother bought me after the birth of my first son, 14 years earlier. Without the knee-high Uggs that photographer Karen Inderbitzen-Waller bought me when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 (yes, I…

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