The Blog
In Conversation With Frandson Bahati
This month we met up with Frandson Bahati ahead of his New Zealand Fashion Week debut. Frandson is a multi-disciplinary artist, who founded the contemporary fashion label Nineteen99. Nineteen99 ...
This month we visited Gray’s, a coffee shop run by two friends, Dan & Grayson. Since opening its doors in 2022, Gray’s has carved out a place for itself in the Dominion Road community...
Introducing the 7th instalment in The Odd, The Beautiful series. Originally from South Africa, Auckland based rapper Kloos is an artist intent to define the “bigger picture”. We are given...
In Conversation With Crystal Chen
Crystal Chen is an Auckland-based artist. Her practice is diverse and is constantly expanding. Crystal's ability to actualise her ideas through creative mediums enables her to crea...
Keciano is a South Auckland based visual artist who creates colourful large-scale pieces influenced by self-discovery and life's seasons. His works are bright and fluid, often orga...
International Women's Day — Meet the Team
Here at I Love Ugly, we are so proud to have such amazing women who work behind the scenes, helping develop the brand into what it is today. Although ILU was initially a menswear ...
The Odd, The Beautiful: Michael Whittaker
Introducing The Odd, The Beautiful: Michael Whittaker — Audacious goals are something we constantly strive to set for ourselves both as a brand and as individuals. They sit at the ...
I Love Ugly began as an art project, so when we came across the idea to launch womenswear with an artist collaboration, it felt like the perfect final touch to work with a talente...
A Q&A WITH OUR WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER
As the founder of I Love Ugly, I thought it would be a good idea to give you some context as to why we decided to branch into womenswear. For the very early followers of the brand...
Welcome to Episode 1 of Ask Me Anything. So basically we get a lot of questions coming through on a weekly basis and we feel the best way to share them is to answer these questions through video...
Newspread Ideas - Valentin Ozich
Earlier this year, I Love Ugly Creative Director and Founder Valentin Ozich sat down with Newspread for their first Newspread Ideas event. Hosted locally on Auckland's K Road by Platform Store, th...
Meet Chester Holme, the London-based Illustrator behind our collaborative Legends World Cup Capsule. We caught up with Chester at his studio in Forest Hil hot off the release of the Legends Capsule...
Introducing 2018s first instalment of the Real People series - featuring LA-based Actor and Comedian Jordan Rock. The Real People Series aims to showcase real people and their craft through a brief...
Introducing the latest instalment of the Real People series - featuring Jerome, an organic sourdough baker out of Auckland, New Zealand. We stopped by to talk Jerome's journey to crafting organic s...
Introducing the latest instalment of the Real People series - featuring Maurice, a singer who makes up half of Auckland band DUAL. Tucked away in the back of a suburban garage turned studio in Bloc...
Introducing the second instalment of the Real People series - featuring Mike, owner and brewer at Sawmill Brewery, one of New Zealand's leading Craft Beer Breweries based a little north of Auckland...
Introducing our new fortnightly series Real People - an authentic video series showcasing an individual and their craft, and what drives them to create. To kick off the series we kept it local, hea...
Semi Permanent Auckland 2017 - Valentin Ozich
I Love Ugly Founder and Creative Director Valentin Ozich had the honour of speaking in front of nearly 2000 people at Semi Permanent Auckland 2017 about the beginnings of I Love Ugly and a few impo...