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Otago Daily Times
24-04-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Designer pods house fashion collection
A massive, high-tech "Lego set", inspired by the Maniototo landscape, has been created by a Dunedin company to display some of the country's top fashion. While most of the high-end outfits in Naseby farmer Eden Hore's collection of New Zealand fashion on show are in Dunedin, some are on display in Central Otago, encased in custom engineered "pods", designed by Dunedin company ZoomTech. Design engineer Richard Cathro said work on the pods began about five years ago, following discussions with Eden Hore collection steering group member and fashion historian Dr Jane Malthus, who already had a concept design for the cases. "I was a little intrigued about it," he said. Mr Cathro knew of the collection and had visited "the Eden Hore menagerie of things" and its caretaker while staying in the Maniototo as a child. "I could imagine at that time I was very reluctant to be dragged around looking at dresses," he said. Mr Hore amassed the largest collection of haute couture 1970s and '80s fashion in New Zealand — more than 270 gowns, primarily by the country's leading designers. The outfits were housed in a former tractor shed on his property until his death in 1997 and this month, a two year exhibit displaying collection highlights opened at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum. However, some items are also on display in ZoomTech's pods at small exhibitions at Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery in Alexandra and at Lohi in Ranfurly. Exhibiting the delicate clothes outside of museum conditions presented a challenge — "the only way you can put some of these clothes on display is in some means of that people can't touch them," Mr Cathro said. The solution was the airtight pods, made of about 300 pieces of wood, plexiglass and aluminium — "a massive Lego set to build" — with a computer-controlled air circulation system to prevent dust settling on the clothes. The pods' colours were inspired by the Maniototo landscape and fashion photographer Derek Henderson's images of the collection modelled in the Central Otago high country. Six pods had been constructed, though not all were in use, and ZoomTech had received huge input from the collection steering group. "The challenges to make this are beyond trying to write them down," Mr Cathro said. For example, the pod's plexiglass had to be bent, but "we couldn't find anyone to bend the plexiglass so we built a machine to do it." Since they went on display, Mr Cathro had fielded inquiries about the pods from Te Papa and had five women looking to display their wedding dresses in them. "We do a lot of work for overseas that no-one gets to see in New Zealand. So in lots of ways, this was a project that I could do that we could show off some of our work."
Otago Daily Times
22-04-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Innovation needed to fashion pods
A massive, high-tech "Lego set", inspired by the Maniototo landscape, has been created by a Dunedin company to display some of the country's top fashion. While most of the high-end outfits in Naseby farmer Eden Hore's collection of New Zealand fashion on show are in Dunedin, some are on display in Central Otago, encased in custom engineered "pods", designed by Dunedin company ZoomTech. Design engineer Richard Cathro said work on the pods began about five years ago, following discussions with Eden Hore collection steering group member and fashion historian Dr Jane Malthus, who already had a concept design for the cases. "I was a little intrigued about it," he said. Mr Cathro knew of the collection and had visited "the Eden Hore menagerie of things" and its caretaker while staying in the Maniototo as a child. "I could imagine at that time I was very reluctant to be dragged around looking at dresses," he said. Mr Hore amassed the largest collection of haute couture 1970s and '80s fashion in New Zealand — more than 270 gowns, primarily by the country's leading designers. The outfits were housed in a former tractor shed on his property until his death in 1997 and earlier this month a two-year exhibit displaying collection highlights opened at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum. However, some items are also on display in ZoomTech's pods at small exhibitions at Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery in Alexandra and at Lohi in Ranfurly. Exhibiting the delicate clothes outside of museum conditions presented a challenge — "the only way you can put some of these clothes on display is in some ... [way] that people can't touch them", Mr Cathro said. The solution was the airtight pods, made of about 300 pieces of wood, plexiglass and aluminium — "a massive Lego set to build" — with a computer-controlled air circulation system to prevent dust settling on the clothes. The pods' colours were inspired by the Maniototo landscape and fashion photographer Derek Henderson's images of the collection modelled in the Central Otago high country. Six pods had been constructed, though not all were in use, and ZoomTech had received huge input from the collection steering group. "The challenges to make this are beyond trying to write them down," Mr Cathro said. For example, the pod's plexiglass had to be bent, but "we couldn't find anyone to bend the plexiglass so we built a machine to do it". Since they went on display, Mr Cathro had fielded inquiries about the pods from Te Papa and women looking to display their wedding dresses in them. "We do a lot of work for overseas that no-one gets to see in New Zealand ... this was a project that I could do that we could show off some of our work."
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cathro goes from Hearts flop to Portugal's top boss
Ian Cathro lasted just seven months in his first managerial role at Heart of Midlothian but is rebuilding his career impressively in Portugal. Cathro won just seven of his 30 games in charge at Tynecastle and was dismissed after a shock League Cup group-stage exit in 2017 following a penalty shootout defeat against Dunfermline. The 38-year-old then worked under Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur before a spell with Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia as a first-team coach. He joined Estoril, a small club to the west of Lisbon, in July last year and had a difficult initial three months in charge. But 'The Canaries' are on a run of five consecutive victories - which they had not achieved since the 1948-49 season - and that has earned the Scotsman the Portuguese top flight's coach of the month award. It is voted for by his peers and Cathro polled 40%, ahead of Vasco Seabra of FC Arouca and Braga's former Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal. Before taking over at Estoril Cathro's previous experience of Portuguese football was as an assistant to Nuno at Rio Ave from 2012 to 2014. He succeeded Vasco Seabra, who left after only nine months but led Estoril to their first cup final in 80 years, where they lost to Braga after a penalty shoot-out in the League Cup.
BBC News
13-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cathro goes from Hearts flop to Portugal's top boss
Ian Cathro lasted just seven months in his first managerial role at Heart of Midlothian but is rebuilding his career impressively in won just seven of his 30 games in charge at Tynecastle and was dismissed after a shock League Cup group-stage exit in 2017 following a penalty shootout defeat against 38-year-old then worked under Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur before a spell with Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia as a first-team joined Estoril, a small club to the west of Lisbon, in July last year and had a difficult initial three months in assistant MacPhee joins Portugal set-upBut 'The Canaries' are on a run of five consecutive victories - which they had not achieved since the 1948-49 season - and that has earned the Scotsman the Portuguese top flight's coach of the month is voted for by his peers and Cathro polled 40%, ahead of Vasco Seabra of FC Arouca and Braga's former Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos taking over at Estoril Cathro's previous experience of Portuguese football was as an assistant to Nuno at Rio Ave from 2012 to succeeded Vasco Seabra, who left after only nine months but led Estoril to their first cup final in 80 years, where they lost to Braga after a penalty shoot-out in the League Cup.
