**Exhibit
      23.1**







**Consent
      of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**




The
        Board
        of Directors
 NexCen
        Brands, Inc.:
  We
        consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements
        (Nos.
        333-91369, 333-52220, 333-128062, 333-52222, 333-139078) on Form S-8 and
        (Nos.
        333-137365, 333-142631, 353-149026) on Form S-3 of NexCen Brands, Inc. and
        subsidiaries (formerly Aether Holdings, Inc.) of our reports dated March
        20,
        2008, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of NexCen Brands, Inc.
        and
        subsidiaries as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated
        statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the
        years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2007, and the effectiveness
        of
        internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007, which
        report
        appears in the December 31, 2007 annual report on Form 10-K of NexCen Brands,
        Inc.
  Our
        report dated March 20, 2008, on the effectiveness of internal control over
        financial reporting as of December 31, 2007, expresses our opinion that NexCen
        Brands, Inc. did not maintain effective internal control over financial
        reporting as of December 31, 2007, because of material weaknesses related
        to the
        following: the Company did not maintain a sufficient number of accounting
        and
        financial reporting personnel; the Company’s personnel did not have an
        appropriate level of technical expertise in U.S. generally accepted accounting
        principles (US GAAP); the design and implementation of the Company’s controls
        over the completeness and accuracy of accrued liabilities were not effective
        as
        of December 31, 2007.
  The
        Company acquired Bill Blass Holding, Co., Inc., MaggieMoo’s International, LLC,
        Marble Slab Creamery, Inc., the Waverly, Gramercy, and Village Brands, Pretzel
        Time Franchising, LLC and Pretzelmaker Franchising, LLC (“acquired entities”)
        during 2007, and management excluded from its assessment of the effectiveness
        of
        the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007,
        the acquired entities’ internal control over financial reporting associated with
        total assets of $203.2 million (of which $193.1 million represents goodwill
        and
        intangible assets included within the scope of the assessment) and total
        revenues of $25.6 million included in the consolidated financial statements
        of
        NexCen Brands, Inc. and subsidiaries as of and for the year ended December
        31,
        2007. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting of the Company
        also
        excluded an evaluation of the internal control over financial reporting of
        the
        acquired entities.
 
 
 
 
 
  We
        also
        have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting
        Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of NexCen
        Brands, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2007 and 2006 and the related
        consolidated statement of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for
        each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2007. The material
        weaknesses were considered in determining the nature, timing, and extent
        of
        audit tests applied in our audit of the 2007 consolidated financial statements,
        and this report does not affect our report dated March 20, 2008, which expressed
        an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. ****
 
 
 
 New
        York,
        New York
 March
        20,
        2008


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