Jane Malthus is a dress historian and honorary
curator for the dress collection at Tuhura Otago Museum, and has an academic
background in textiles, clothing and fashion, history and fine arts. Her
research explores historical, social and cultural intersections and
implications of dress and textiles used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century
New Zealanders. Involved with Eden Hore's collection since the 1980s, she is a
current patron and steering group member for Eden Hore Central Otago and a
founding member of Costume & Textiles Aotearoa New Zealand.

Claire Regnault is Senior Curator New Zealand
Histories & Cultures at Te Papa. She is particularly interested in New
Zealand's dress histories, and associated industries including fashion
photography, textile design, retail and promotion. She is the author of Dressed:
Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1840 to 1910 (2021), winner
of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction; New
Zealand Gown of the Year (2003); and co-author of The Dress Circle: New
Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 (2010). She is the President of Costume
& Textiles Aotearoa New Zealand, and a member of the Eden Hore Central
Otago steering committee.

Derek Henderson is one of New Zealand's most prolific
photographers, with a wide-ranging portfolio that spans various genres; from
architecture, fashion, interiors, landscape and portraiture. Derek has
exhibited at fine art galleries throughout Australasia, with some of his
photographs in permanent collections, namely the National Gallery of Victoria,
Christchurch City Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and the Arts House Trust art
Collection.