The Age of Aquarius - NZ Fashion Museum: Pop up exhibition 1.part

The Age of Aquarius - A 1970s revolution in fashion

NZ Fashion Museum 

Pop up exhibition in Auckland
Exhibition hours are 10am to 4.30pm. Open Monday-Saturday. 100 Parnell Road, Auckland.

Designed by Zora Price - black wool tunic with lurex thread, trimmed with gold braid - worn with gold lame hot pants

The Age of Aqurius exhibition provides a platform to see and experience New Zealand  in the 1970s through the wardrobes and stories of six individuals, and through examples of six different modes of fashion making.

Zora Price green wool and lurex jumpsuit and orange textured polyester trimmed with intricate roulé work and has a matching caplet.

"The 1970 s were a time when the prevailing interpretation and side effects of prosperity were being challenged. People sought a way to live more harmoniously and cooperatively with nature and with each other. At the end of the decade Lake Manapouri had indeed been saved, the Vietnam War was over and military service was no longer compulsory. The Waitangi Tribunal had been established to redress land alienation from kiwi. It provided a legal process where these grievances could be aired and resolved. And while it would take until 1996 for the French to stop nuclear testing at pacific, political action had raised awareness and let to New Zealand staunch antinuclear stance, which resulted in Labour passing the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act in 1987.

At the end of decade the population was only 3.2 million, as the rate of population growth slowed thanks in part to the increased availability of the pill and access to abortion.

The domestic Purposes Benefit had been introduced, providing independence and economic support for women with children, and the Equal Pay Act and Matrimonial Property Act had been passed, giving women more social status and freedom."
New Zealand Fashion Museum's catalogue: The Age of Aquarius

Designed by Phil O'Reilly for Black Sheep

" The 1970s were a time when the prevailing interpretation and side effects of prosperity were being challenged. People sought a way to live more harmoniously and cooperatively with nature and with each other. "
New Zealand Fashion Museum catalogue The age of Aquarius

Virginia label

The fabulous 1970s furniture that features in the exhibition is from Karakter.

The mannequins are in the 70's