In the early days Maori women wore tiki to help with fertility and ward off evil spirits when pregnant." Tupu first put the hand-drawn design onto a T-shirt in 2004, before casting it in resin to ...

The name derives from a Maori creation myth. Tiki design themes remained fashionable right through the 1960s. Two notable examples of quiet good taste (I’m being ironic here) from the style’s ...