
Overview
Juliette Hogan is a New Zealand womenswear label founded in Auckland in 2004 by textile designer Juliette Hogan. After studying at Massey University and completing the final stage of her education in New York through the Karen Walker and Steinlager Dare to Be scholarship, Hogan returned home and built the business first through wholesale from her family property in Karaka. Avenue Clothing became a principal local manufacturing partner in 2006, the label entered Air New Zealand Fashion Week that September, and its first owned boutique opened on Ponsonby Road in 2007.
The business has since developed into a founder-led national label with owned stores in Newmarket, Commercial Bay, Wellington and Christchurch, e-commerce, wholesale distribution and a workroom in Avondale. Its main collections sit alongside Juliette Hogan Bridal, JH Lounge and the permanent Foundation Suiting offer. Hogan remains Director and named designer, working closely with Art Direction + Design Lead Alice Feutz on collection development and image-making; selective returns to New Zealand Fashion Week in 2019, 2023 and 2025 have kept the runway as an occasional public expression of a business otherwise organised around four annual retail collections.
Philosophy
Juliette Hogan’s design is grounded in textile behaviour, proportion and a controlled approach to everyday polish. Silk dresses, fluid tailoring, knitwear, coats and relaxed separates are frequently organised around original prints, tactile surface and restrained construction, allowing colour and fabric to carry much of the visual weight. The silhouettes favour ease without losing definition: bias cuts, clean trousers, softened jackets and precise occasion pieces are designed to move between work, evening and ceremony without requiring a separate visual identity for each setting.
The label’s production structure reinforces that continuity. A long-running relationship with Auckland manufacturer Avenue Clothing keeps much of the main collection in New Zealand, while the Avondale workroom concentrates design development, sampling and bespoke bridal work. Permanent offers such as Foundation Suiting and JH Lounge sit beside four collections tied to seasonal change, giving the wardrobe both recurring foundations and room for new print, fabrication and proportion each year.
Timeline
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Creative timeline
Button TextFeutz joined Juliette Hogan in 2017 and progressed from the workroom into a senior role spanning collection development and image. As Art Direction + Design Lead, she works with Hogan from early design ideas through print, styling, casting and presentation while the founder retains final house authority.
Juliette Hogan divisions and permanent offers
The house has developed several durable lines around distinct uses while keeping design and distribution within the main Juliette Hogan structure.
Juliette Hogan Bridal
Formally launched in 2018, the bridal line applies the house’s silk, bias-cutting and restrained construction to wedding dressing. A bespoke service formalised in 2024 now operates within Bridal, with consultations and custom development handled through the Avondale workroom.
JH Lounge
Introduced in 2020, JH Lounge extends the label into elevated loungewear and knitwear using materials including organic cotton and traceable cashmere.
Foundation Suiting
Launched on 22 May 2024, Foundation Suiting is a year-round tailoring offer of jackets, waistcoats and trousers designed to remain available beyond the cadence of the numbered collections.
Juliette Hogan collaborations
The label’s long-running partnerships have concentrated on local making, hospitality, art and presentation.
- Avenue Clothing — primary Auckland manufacturing partner from circa 2006, responsible for the majority of mainline New Zealand production.
- Amisfield — an ongoing relationship beginning with staff uniforms in 2017 and later extending into a bespoke textile print and a co-branded rosé.
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki — authorised the translation of Colin McCahon’s French Bay into textile for the label’s 2014 New Zealand Fashion Week collection.
- Boh Runga — supplied jewellery from the Messenger Stories range for the label’s September 2007 fashion-week presentation.