Just touching base with you all and letting you know Masami now  offers a Custom Made, Bespoke service especially for you. 

If you would like any of the existing styles In Stock or Out of Stock, created in your size or cloth of choice. This service is now available...

We have entered a very strange time in this Chinese Year of the Rat. 

My year started with the firm commitment to not purchase any cloth but to bring life to all the beautiful Vintage cloth and trims I have collected over these years.  And there are some beautiful piece...

Seasons Greetings to you all from sunny Gisborne.

This season I have been working with vintage cloth and trims that I have come across in my travels. As we head into this new year this will become more and more apart of MASAMI's finish. 

I have worked with creating old i...

Winter has come and we are already past the shortest day heading towards Spring / Summer Fall and so it goes around again.

My Winter Collection engages many things .

The embroidery patch seen on my coats , is based on an etching done by Lloyd Harwood I purchased in 1995...

Autumn is one of my favourite seasons. The air is crisper and refreshing , the grass has that beautiful morning dew settled upon it, [which I do go out and walk on in my bare feet ] and the light changes dramatically as here in New Zealand we come to the close of Dayli...

I thought I would share with you some of Gisborne . This is where I live, my inspiration, my world. 

And also to thank all of you for your support for Masami, for this I am truly grateful.

I would like to wish all of you a wonderful happy and safe Christmas and New Year....

I have just had the honour to be part of this esteemed annual   one-night Fashion and Design extravaganza set in the hallowed mist and steam of the Whakarewarewa Valley, at Rotorua's Te Puia.

TIKI AHUA - Kura  Mowai celebrates  the power to create 

Wi...

I am so pleased to share with you my new winter collection.  

I had the privilege to meet a man who won The Benson and Hedges awards in the late 70's  He manufactured mens suits made from 100% New Zealand  merino wool manufactured in  Japan and Italy... and I have purch...