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Style Liaisons With Model Kaarina Parker


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Kaarina writes on the destructive rhetoric surrounding bodies that permeates our society, and the importance of accommodation for all within the fashion space.

For RUBY

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Model and writer Kaarina Parker (Ngāpuhi) reflects on two shows from two perspectives: as a model on the runway, and a guest watching on.

A model reviews the shows:

All Roads Lead to Rome, but so few to its Women: the challenges of writing a feminist historical novel set during the late Roman Republic

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