Jacqueline was born in Stratford, Taranaki New Zealand, and has been designing clothing since a very young age. As a talented designer, Jacqueline has spent many years crafting her skills in fashion and textile design, with a very successful career working in Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles....and eventually finding her way back home to Hamilton, New Zealand. Jacqueline has recently launched her own line of luxury womenswear, Jaqueline Ann Couture, and opened a beautiful boutique in Parnell, Auckland. Jacqueline is also a keen rugby coach when time permits, and a bit of a fan of the All Blacks rugby team. Jaqueline is a direct descendant of Chief Te Mahutu and Te Waikaungarangi of the Te Āti Awa Iwi, from Pukerangiora Pa, in Taranaki. Jacqueline has been studying for the last three years at Te Wananga O Aotearoa, in Toi (Maori and indigenous art).
Website: www.jacqueline-anne.com
Instagram: @jacqueline_anne_atelier
Jaqueline has contributed as one of Kaleo’s fashion designers, creating and consulting in all things relating to our surface pattern designs, colourways, and styles. In this design, she has featured New Zealand’s most iconic fern which has been a symbol of national identity since the late 1880s. Known for the leaf’s silver underside, Jacqueline has managed to capture this with her negative/positive spaces in a graceful arrangement.
