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Take brilliant photos and help support the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation. For every IXUS80IS sold here, Canon is donating $10 to the charity. Apart from those charitable feelings you'll enjoy, you also get the beauty of this most portable of cameras in five fashion colours. It's pretty hard to take a bad photo with this given the image stabiliser lens (to combat camera shake), red-eye correction and face detection.
It also balances white so you get perfect skin tone and lighting. $449.95. For stockists ph 0800 222 666 or go to www.canon.co.nz
Import fanciers alert!
In at Zambesi now are some utterly desirable shoes and boots by A F Vandervorst. With their elevated wedges they'll keep your tootsies well away from the wet and cold pavements. And also just arrived instore, is the latest from cult label Rick Owens.
Girly Australian label Alannah Hill is going into sale early with 25 per cent already off selected items at its Nuffield St, Newmarket store.
Sister act
Another fashion shopping website has been launched into cyberspace, this time by two sisters - Gemma and Anna Hayes.
The site, based in Auckland, offers a small but nicely formed range of local and Australian designer names. These include twentysevennames (formerly Love lies Bleeding), Kathryn Wilson shoes, and Australians Chip Cop and Ellery. Check them out at: www.inzivil.com
Hue and cry
Recently opened in Mt Eden is a most stylish new hair salon completely devoted to hair colour. Hue offers a choice of organic or ordinary colours and there are no scissors in this salon. Prices start around $40. See www.hue.co.nz, or phone 0508 CALL HUE
