Our Favourite Looks at the Aotearoa Art Fair 2025 Opening Night

Hello Saucettes,

This past week felt like a cultural crescendo for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Anchored by the Aotearoa Art Fair, the city was brimming with visual energy—joined by the Viaduct Harbour Sculpture Trail, the May Art Fair, and DarkLight, a luminous, immersive installation by Angus Muir Design and producer Dan Move. The sheer breadth of work on show offered plenty of space to contemplate, collect, and be captivated. As well as, take some art home.

Opening night at the Aotearoa Art Fair, in particular, proved to be a study not just in contemporary art, but in contemporary style. A cross-section of artists, collectors, and culture-seekers arrived in very cool directional silhouettes, rare vintage, and cult labels. As someone who’s spent over 18 years on the global Fashion Week circuit, I’m always struck by how art fairs have become quiet showcases for personal style at its most expressive and idiosyncratic.

We’ve rounded up some of our favourite looks from the evening—each one telling its own story.

See more of our favourite looks captured by Karen Ishiguro on our website.