To Fashion: Navakatoa Tekela-Pule

I am:

Navakatoa Tekela-Pule

I was born in the front room of our family home in Grey Lynn.

My placenta is buried under the pōhutukawa tree.

I'm in absolute love with creating and the process that follows. 

I'm filled with constant adoration of the world and its multitude of colours.

I use creativity as a vehicle to explore my identities, my muses & aesthetic pleasures.

I am currently exploring through poetry & painting.

NOA RECORDS

For healing and encouragement.

@ https://noarecords.bandcamp.com/

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I am wearing:
1.

The things I choose to wear were created with both consideration and intent/urgency and clamour.
The idea constantly moved between spaces of old and tried experiences
to arrangements with my new youth and splendid calamity

arranged like flowers.

 

Adornments

"Pahū Culture"

Pintuck Dinner Shirt
Cotton Blend
Screen Printed, Black Ink
Gold Lipped Mother Of Pearl (Nacre) Cufflinks

By Abigail Aroha Jensen
@a.ro.ha

 

"Manifest Anything"

3 Piece Front Set
925 Sterling Silver
Black Lipped Mother Of Pearl (Nacre) Inlay

By Issac Rayneau
IG: @phantomoftheopera_conspiracy

 

"Girlfriend"

5 Piece Ring Stack Set
925 Sterling Silver, Garnet

By Gloria Florence
IG: @saint_gloriaflorence
      @fickle_fingers_nz

 

"Echos and Murmurs"

Outer Piece -
Red Twine, Gold Lipped Mother Of Pearl (Nacre)
Black Manihiki Pearls.

Inner Piece -
Fishing Line, Freshwater Pearls.

By Sofia Tekela-Smith

IG: @duskifrompepjei

"Monuina"

2 Piece Kingston Suit
Cotton Blend
Oil Sticks, Fabric Ink

- Poem On Reverse-

"& to have seen you in lava lava
the fire of polynesia
I will take you to my mothers country
where hibiscus flower's tip their pollen
into canoes drifting out
to sea"

By John Pule
IG: @likupoet

 

"Tomorrow"

Perfumed scent
Head - Bergamont, Tuberose, Roses, Spiced Tobacco
Heart - Chypre, Leather, Wood homme
Base - Arabian Oud, Amber, Civet, Labdanum

By Navakatoa Tekela-Pule
IG: @wickedwngz

All Listed Artworks Made In NZ, 2022.

 

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