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glowing yoga practice in our raja shorts and  popeye tee

at the beginning of the week a friend turned to me and said “your skin is glowing! What are you doing?” she was a colleague from my previous life in the world of beauty editorial and I racked my brain pondering my skin care regime. It was only after she left that I realized that the big change was I had upped my yoga practice. Without wanting to sound like an advert for glow yoga, I feel like I’m a shinier happier person too!  It’s a radiance we spot in a lot of our we’ar family, from our yogi and yogini models to those of you who walk through the doors of our boutiques in bali and cross street! Its hard not to glow with joy in our popping shades of tangerine, or our hooray for summer kaftans! so this week it seemed only fair to devote the yoga mat rundown to all things glowing...


glowing corn? thats right corn! the most beautiful corn in the world glows like jewels. it looks like something made in the future but its actually an heirloom  - nature you sure are delightful via  edible geography 


new gold certification for fair and safe conditions for those mining and working with gold keeps the gold trade tarnish free via ecouterre


passion pit - take a walk has been our anthem while running the last few days (good way to get your morning glow on!) if you feel like some music glow check this out via eco salon


love this yoga journal piece on the humble sun salute! with insights from shiva rea via yoga journal


another isnt nature wonderful posts. this time the glowing ocean via new scientist 


cleo is basically the word glow as a person. a friend of we'ar. a yogini, photographer, curator, stylist and  traveller. shes currently in melbourne and we'ar loving her blog posts via violet bones


reuse + recycle should be the first port of call for those things we think to throw away! this time plastic bottles become a glowing, beautiful canopy via not cot


glowing poles that charge electric cars? sounds interesting! via not cot 


we have watched this a half a dozen times at least glowing nature takes over a city for the night - uplifting and beautiful via vimeo 


how to build your creative confidence - amazing ted talk with david kelley, a light bulb moment for many and with applications more far reaching than drawing or design. yoga is afterall creative via swiss miss


and lastly (and slightly random) I’m personally charmed by this diy neon animal garland via design for mankind

we'ar snuggly and warm in our bamboo cocoonlets.

Habitat for Humanity helps projects both locally and abroad, and this year WE'AR is proud to support Belinda Nash in promoting her 'Reconciliation Build' team to get to Sri Lanka and build their Whare Toa - to unite Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim communities in one village. This August, 300 Kiwis and people from around the world are descending on Sri Lankan shores to make a tiny but significant contribution to world peace...

this morning the WE'AR team made their way down to Britomart Country Club for the Fairtrade Breakfast supported by Oxfam, a sustainable event to kick off Fairtrade Fortnight... it was a crisp but beautiful sunny morning to enjoy some fair trade goodies and support our peers in the industry committed to fair trade for all!

Maui's dolphin will be the first marine cetacean in the world to become extinct directly due to human impact - unless you help" - Sea Shepherd

nylon filiment gill nets are the number one killer of the maui's and hectors dolphins. there are only 55 of this tiny indigenous dolphin left in population, so to ensure we don't lose this special creature please sign the petition for the government to place stronger bans on gillnets and trawlings...


 http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/take-action/Take-action-online/Save-the-Maui/

WE'AR showed at 2012 New Zealand Fashion Festival in the day one collections along with Starfish, Moochi, Coop and Salasai. WE'AR offered a taste of winter lavishness with layered up goodness and knitted delights fresh from our ethical production operation in bali. Cotton, rayon and knits peppered with leather and lace rounded out our collection of basics, yoga wear + street-wear. Couldn't make it to the show? Don't worry anya has collated all the news just for you...

a selection of coverage from foureyes.com, thealist.co.nz and snapstarlive.com.

we'ar is getting excited for splore! music, arts, performance and community rolled into a 3 day festival at tapapakanga regional park from 17th-19th Feb. the we'ar team will be there along with a few extra helping hands setting up our stall, selling our awesome clothes, as well as live tweeting and checking out all the variety splore has to offer. maria and anya tell you what they are looking forward to most...

Maria Selects

saturday in the seduction saloon... 
sooo I'm slightly biased because I will be dancing in In Flagrante here, but this really appeals to the performer in me! workshops, circus and burlesque running throughout the day into the eve, what a great way for people to express their creativity in a fun, crazy open environment. I'm keen to check out the barons of tang too - a mash-up of tango, rockabilly, metal and gypsy funk - yes please!

yoga and pilates workshops
looking forward to a chill out yoga session on the sunday after a full on weekend of splore fun... and our we'ar yogini pal katy carter will be teaching! there will also be meditation, Pilates and tai chi in the portavillion - a relaxing sanctuary to recharge the weary mind and body x x


the hooha hut
any excuse for dress-ups...

'From Friday to Sunday Splore magically transforms into the quasi-mystical cartoon-ironical, Island of Hooha. Expect rampaging wild beasties, nymphs and troupes of adventurers. To fit in with the locals bring costumery that enhances a feeling of anticipation for ribald good times and a personal bubbling up of exotica.'
there is even a head-dress workshop available. intriguing...

we'ar is also lucky to be spending time outdoors in such a beautiful environmental setting such as Tapapakanga national park - there is a pre-historic stonefield garden, and two Maori Pa sites, and boasts a pohutukawa fringed coastline. Read more about the history of the park here 

from top left: maria in costume for in flagrante, barons of tang in their glory, katy carter yoga for a strong and beautiful yoga practice who will be teaching yoga at splore!, the splore venue (can it get any better) and hows this for a splore costume! if you want something a little less... baloony? try out some of our we'ar summer range here.

Anya Selects

local legends on a global stage
dont get me wrong, i love an international act as much as the next person but there is so much awesome local flavor in one place its hard not to get excited! Scratch22 (also a member of ARC who happen to have their own store opposite ours on cross street in auckland) will be playing, @peace and the always amazing king kapisi. lots of love for the locals! one of the coolest things though is that a lot of creative connections will be forged at this event, and it will be even more interesting to see what comes out of the local creative community in a years time - new connections, new collaborations, new insights! gotta love splore!


arts and quirkyness combine!
i love the fact that splore is so much more than a music festival! whilst we are all looking forward to dancing away to miss badu you can also spend your days perusing art installations including work from the likes of cut collective and miranda brown. performance art more your thing? i was lucky enough to check out super kakkoi fighting kitten friends recently and totally reccomend going along to see it, especially if you like me have a thing for pokemon / japanese culture / cats / hilarity!


a reason to dress up!
my main wardrobe favorite for womad last year was my pleated kaftan dress, you can un button those floaty arms and rock it as a low backed halter neck! this year ill be we'aring my polkahontas dress with pride. haven't sorted your splore wardrobe? come visit us and snap up one of our dream sea dresses or lace body suits? don't have time before splore? find us in the market area and we'ar will sort you out! did you know that the kabuki klompen are perfect for dancing in all day even on the most uneven of ground?

from left: the beautiful miss badu, scratch 22's latest album, performance art cuteness, an example of arty goodness from the cut collective and local hero king kapisi