Girl on film

Costume designer and film director Kirstey Cameron wears her favourite Andrea Crews t-shirt dress from Children of Vision. Photo / Babiche Martens

Celebrated costume designer Kirsty Cameron has collaborated with NOM*d's Margi Robertson to produce a short film as part of the label's Fashion Week presentation today. The seven-minute film, directed by Cameron, will be screened at Sky City theatre to invited guests this morning, showcasing NOM*d's new winter 2010 collection. Cameron, who works as a costume designer, artist and film-maker, has worked on the wardrobes of local films including Whale Rider , No 2 and In My Father's Den - meaning she has a unique perspective into the worlds of fashion and film, and bringing the two together. She shares with us some of her favourite things.

1 Andrea Crews T-shirt dress

Children of Vision is one of my favourite Auckland boutiques, and from it I bought a dress, made simply out of two whole black T-shirts reconstituted, so the sleeves become the neck and the necks become holes for your arms. It's made by Andrea Crews, a prolific Parisian fashion activist.

2 Wish You Were Here magazine

Glenn and Amanda Hunt published four issues of Wish You Were Here from New York between 2000 and 2002. It's a beautiful concept that asks some of the best photographers in the world to send in their personal work, taken either while on holiday or assignment. The amalgamation of the idea, the design and the "snapshots" of beaches, locals, fires and skies, make it something I cherish. In the rash of magazines that has come since, it still stands out.

3 Bronze heads by Edward Kindleysides

These mysterious heads freaked me out when I was little, along with the Struwwelpeter fairytales my mother read me. She bought them in the 1950s. I imagine I'll have them until I die which is pretty cool.

4 Guitar painting

I always like to rummage in the secondhand shops of any city I'm visiting, out of a fascination film with what has been discarded and in the hope of bringing back something special. I was working in Rio and had an assistant who was more into junk shops than almost anyone I know in NZ, which is hard to beat. Anyway, I found this painting.

5 Who is Dead Martin? scarf

Maiangi Waitai is a Wellington artist, who makes clothes under the Who Is Dead Martin label, that are like wearing art. You could wear a different scarf, necklace or cape of hers every day along with a paper bag outfit and you'd feel and look great all week.

6 Fortune or witch's ball

Flotsam and Jetsam is another shop that makes Auckland a better place to be. I'd been coveting this mirrored glass ball in there for weeks. It made me think of Kenneth Anger films. It was perfect for the NOM*d film with our themes of mirror, reflection and spooky covens.

7 My Tivoli table radio

Tivoli rocks in both sound and design, and square as it might be, I quite love radio. Not all the time listening, but I'm having a bit of a bFM romance right now, with the Morning Glory show, and also weekend National Radio - Music 101 and the Reith lectures, mixed up with some Kim Hill.

8 Eileen Grey table 1924

This table is a symbolic piece to own, by a truly great and inspiring woman whose maxim was "to create you must question everything".

9 Giovanni Intra Can't Read, Can't Write

I have been left this artwork to look after and it reminds me of both the artist who made it, and the friend who is overseas, and of a time in our lives.

10 NOM.d cardigan

I bought this cardigan for Auntie Maka to wear in Whale Rider. I loved the reciprocation between the style of the "high street" and the natural, inspirational style of the kuia. Mabel Wharekawa wore it so well, and I always knew it was the piece I wanted to keep from the film. My cat Fox, has since eaten it as she likes eating wool. So am looking for darners.