Blogs

What an incredible collaboration with Style Maya Fiji for the inaugural ‘Pink Escape – Fashion Meets Awareness’ event! After six weeks of meticulous planning online, Cynthia Cebujano successfully hosted her very first fashion event, marking a significant milestone. I had the privilege of mentoring Cynthia three years ago through Volunteers Services Abroad, an organization funded […]

I had the privilege of serving as a keynote speaker at the recent Blue Light Youth Development Conference held in Fiji, an event hosted collaboratively by Blue Light New Zealand and Fiji Police. The conference brought together a diverse group of stakeholders from across the Pacific, as well as representatives from Australia and the United […]

It was truly an incredible honour to receive the Business in Excellence Award in Creative Arts at the 2025 Pacific Business Trust Awards held in October. I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the Pacific Business Trust for recognizing and celebrating Pacific businesses across New Zealand, especially during such a challenging economic climate. Despite […]

Nine years ago, I launched the Pacific Fusion Fashion Show with a clear vision: to elevate Pacific fashion on the global stage and to one day be part of NZ Fashion Week. From the very beginning, I dedicated myself to curating a show that was professional, high-end, and proudly Pacific. My goal was not only […]

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) took place in Samoa from Mon 21 Oct – Sat 26 Oct 2024 and I was thrilled to partake in this historic event for Samoa. As a Samoan raised in Auckland, New Zealand who hails from Saleilua Falealili and Vaipuna Apia, it has always been a goal of […]

It was an honour to run capacity building workshops in Niue in Aug and Sept 2024. The capacity building workshops were in partnership with the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Academy for Women Entrepreneurs and the Niue Chamber of Commerce and were customised to suit the fashion community (leadership team, designers and models) […]

Thirteen years ago, when I first embarked on my journey into the world of fashion, I set a goal that felt both bold and aspirational. I envisioned creating something that wouldn’t just exist temporarily but would leave a lasting legacy – an event that would grow to become an integral part of the fashion and […]

Fashion Quarterly hosted the inaugural fashion awards on 31st July at Morningside’s Glasshouse , and I was incredibly honoured to have been recognized as a finalist for Best Contribution to Pacific Fashion. This acknowledgment meant the world to me, and I’m deeply grateful to the wonderful person who took the time to nominate me 😊. Being named […]

Mānawatia a Matariki. The Māori new year is the perfect time to reimagine your style. How did you celebrate Matariki this year? I hope you had a fabulous time with your family and friends and got the chance to remember the past, give thanks for the present, and look ahead with a sense of adventure […]

A friend nominated me for these awards and because my track record has never been successful with awards, I was reluctant to enter and was not really interested. It wasn’t until a fellow woman entrepreneur and friend entered a pageant overseas and as I was following her journey, she inspired me to enter the PBT […]

What a complete honour it was to represent New Zealand at the 2022 Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar in Oahu from 24 July – 6 August this year. I applied for this seminar thinking, ‘I could potentially get accepted’ but I wasn’t holding my breath as I knew a few pacific women in business had […]

It’s not everyday an international PR agency contacts you to be included in one of their articles, so when the New York City Journal emailed me and asked if I’d like to be part of their article acknowledging 30 people disrupting the fashion industry in 2022 I was completely lost for words. As someone who […]