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Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Central Otago Collection

SKU: 9781991072054
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  • Author:
    MALTHUS Jane / REGNAULT Claire
  • ISBN:
    9781991072054
  • Publication Date:
    March 2025
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    336
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Te Papa Press
  • Country of Publication:
    New Zealand
Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Central Otago Collection
Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Central Otago Collection
New

Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Central Otago Collection

SKU: 9781991072054
Regular price $70.00
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    MALTHUS Jane / REGNAULT Claire
  • ISBN:
    9781991072054
  • Publication Date:
    March 2025
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    336
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Te Papa Press
  • Country of Publication:
    New Zealand

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In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm in the tussocked hills of the Maniototo 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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  • In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm in the tussocked hills of the Maniototo 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.

In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm in the tussocked hills of the Maniototo 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.