Organizers are reimagining this year’s runway by highlighting circular fashion and Te Ao Māori, the respect and acknowledgement of the country’s Indigenous individuals’s customs. The occasion was additionally gifted a Te Ao Māori name— Kahuria, meaning “to adorn.” Environment-conscious jewellery and garment designer Kiri Nathan would be the first Māori designer in history to open the present, at the Viaduct Events Centre on the waterfront. During the pandemic, Tokyo took the lead in technology, using holograms and other digitalization to deliver looks to life when the runways have been canceled. Now in its first yr in-person since COVID restrictions eased, …