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Peter Stewart, who has been
convicted of rape, and his wife Pieter. A member of a Christchurch
foremost business family, Peter Stewart is a farmer who lives in Hororata. Stewart's wife is fashion queen
Pieter Stewart, managing director of New Zealand Fashion Week. They have four adult children and
live on a deer farm in Canterbury. Stewart, 62, is the director
of Pacific Eagle Charters and he owns a luxury charter superyacht that is
based in Picton, located close to the Stewart holiday home in nearby Lochmara
Bay. Pieter Stewart's connection to the
world of fashion began in 1979 when she founded Pieter's Model Agency and
School in Christchurch. She had bought the business from New Zealand fashion
icon, Paula Ryan, whose range featured at the inaugural L'Oréal New Zealand
Fashion Week. As well as running the school,
Pieter began to focus on the role of media in fashion becoming associate
editor of New Zealand's premier fashion magazine, Fashion Quarterly in the
mid 1980s. She formed her own public
relations and promotions company in 1988. That business has since become the
umbrella company for all her work in television production and in the
development of New Zealand Fashion's most important week of business. Peter Stewart's father is Sir
Robertson Stewart who died earlier this year aged 93. Sir Robertson was the
founder of PDL Industries, which was sold in 2001 to giant French manufacturer
Schneider. Sir Robertson had three children
by his first marriage, but he and Gladys later divorced. He then married
Adrienne, who had worked at PDL and been his secretary, since 1959. They had
two children. Peter's brother is Robert Stewart
the founder and owner of Skope Industries, a designer and manufacturer of
commercial refrigeration. It is based in Princess Street in Riccarton. Skope
is one of Christchurch's largest manufacturers and is estimated to have
revenues of $90 million a year. Masthead is the company used by
brothers Mark and Todd and their mother Lady Adrienne Stewart as an
investment vehicle. Their recent offer to buy 51% of Auckland healthcare firm
Abano failed because of opposition from Abano and when an Australian investor
offered a higher price. |
