Te Wiki Āhua o Aotearoa - Good Mourning

In the third installment of our Te Wiki Āhua o Aotearoa story, we find ourselves seized by the echo chamber. A space where the glamour is loud, the pressure hits harder and the line between opportunity and exploitation becomes dangerously thin.

This is not your hero’s journey. It’s a mirror held up to an industry that grooms and consumes. Where control is dressed up as mentorship, and creativity is traded like currency. Yet, we find ourselves returning. Not because it’s easy, but because it matters. Our stories matter.

We give everything because we know, every season of Āhua, that this might be the last time we get to make this stand. We’re a community of young, scrappy, and hungry creatives that show up to the arena seemingly ill-equipped and eyes bigger than our stomachs.

Every show this August 22nd – 30th is more than just a runway, it’s a declaration. It’s a stand for what we value, what we protect, and what we carry forward as a community.

Runway 14

Show Title - Good Mourning

In ‘Good Mourning’, we dress the wound. A visceral, feminine descent into grief - not as something to be fixed, but something to be worn. This show invites you into the intimate ritual of loss in all its forms. The grief of losing someone. The grief of losing yourself.

Designers Jasmine Jury, Fiona Lu, Elizabeth May, Real Life, and Awatea lead us through a dark and delicate ritual of letting go. Here, mourning isn’t a weakness - it’s a reclamation. There is strength in softness. There is clarity in collapse. There is beauty in the unbearable.

‘Good Mourning’ makes space for the full spectrum of loss…how grief reshapes us - beautifully and painfully into something new.

Featuring Designers : Jasmine Jury, Fiona Lu, Elizabeth May, Real Life, Awatea