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Wednesday <strong>September</strong> 7 <strong>2016</strong><br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 23<br />
Fashion<br />
Cup week designer’s new collection<br />
• By Annabelle Dick<br />
ARA INSTITUTE of<br />
Canterbury student Abby<br />
Gottermeyer has already begun<br />
a career in the fashion industry<br />
before even graduating with her<br />
design degree.<br />
Miss Gottermeyer, 24, has<br />
started her own business where<br />
she makes and sells her creations<br />
under the brand name Abby<br />
Wynne – all while juggling fulltime<br />
study.<br />
“Business is going great, but<br />
it’s stressful doing it while course<br />
is on,” she said.<br />
She started as an entrepreneur<br />
when she put her collection up<br />
for sale at the FORM exhibition<br />
at Ara in July.<br />
The fashion school’s third<br />
year students’ collections were<br />
designed to a brief from industry<br />
partners and Miss Gottermeyer<br />
worked with Lonely Hearts to<br />
create her Cleopatra-themed<br />
pieces.<br />
A one-off sweatshirt with an<br />
Egyptian-style hand-drawn<br />
print was so well liked she had<br />
to create more to keep up with<br />
interest from keen buyers.<br />
Miss Gottermeyer even quit<br />
her part-time job so she could<br />
dedicate more time to her business.<br />
“I’m trying to juggle it all. I<br />
KEEN CREATOR: Abby Gottermeyer finds time between study to work on her own fashion<br />
line.<br />
PHOTO: ANNABELLE DICK<br />
quit my job at a cafe and this<br />
has become my income and I’ve<br />
made more money already doing<br />
this than I would’ve if I stayed at<br />
my job,” she said.<br />
Miss Gottermeyer has had a<br />
keen eye for the creative industry<br />
her whole life as she grew up<br />
with an artist as a mother.<br />
Sandra Gottermeyer creates<br />
encaustic paintings, which<br />
involves using heated beeswax<br />
with coloured pigments.<br />
“She taught me a lot about<br />
colour,” she said.<br />
“She also taught me how to<br />
draw. She was a sewer and she<br />
had her own label for a while<br />
and that’s how I initially became<br />
interested in fashion.”<br />
While the sweatshirts have<br />
proved successful on the market,<br />
she admits she’s more interested<br />
in creating dress wear.<br />
“I’m using this experience to<br />
grow and learn who I am as a<br />
designer – I usually make clothes<br />
that I and my friends would<br />
wear,” she said.<br />
Miss Gottermeyer won the<br />
Ballantynes Cup Week Fashion<br />
Designer Award in 2015, the<br />
New Zealand Cup and Show<br />
Week Fashion in the Field Young<br />
Designer Award in 2014 and the<br />
Best Dressed Lady at Addington<br />
AWARD WINNING: Abby<br />
Gottermeyer has won numerous<br />
fashion designer awards at New<br />
Zealand Cup and Show Week.<br />
Contemporary Award in 2011.<br />
“I want my own label, end of,”<br />
she said.<br />
Miss Gottermeyer is working<br />
towards her end of year,<br />
Miami-based collection, which<br />
will showcase at Ara’s PITCH<br />
Fashion Show.<br />
Miss Gottermeyer has established<br />
her own Facebook page<br />
‘Abby Wynne’ to sell her creations.<br />
New dog rules start in spring<br />
New rules around dogs, and what their owners<br />
are required to do, are in effect from Thursday<br />
1 <strong>September</strong> <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Major changes to the general rules include:<br />
• All dog owners must carry plastic bags to clean up dog<br />
poo when in public places.<br />
• When dog owners have their dog off-leash in a<br />
public place, they must have it “under effective<br />
control”, which means being aware of where their<br />
dog is and what it is doing, and ensuring it is<br />
responsive to commands and not creating a nuisance.<br />
For full details on the new policy and bylaw, please visit<br />
www.ccc.govt.nz/dogbylaw<br />
ALERT TO CHRISTCHURCH<br />
HOMEOWNERS:<br />
EQC is now asking homeowners<br />
to assess own damage.<br />
"Remedial works letters"<br />
sent to those who've<br />
complained about repair work<br />
carried out by Fletchers EQR<br />
Ask yourself: Why after 6 years<br />
does EQC give you just 30 days to<br />
assess your own damage? We say<br />
it's to reduce EQC's liabilities through<br />
homeowners not really knowing full<br />
quake or repair damage.<br />
• Do you know anything about<br />
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• Can you determine any damage to<br />
your slab under carpets?<br />
• Or if your piles need replacing?<br />
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