NZ Fashion Week

Katy Thomas, fashion reporter/model, took a camera courtesy of Polaroid around NZ Fashion Week and captured some moments on Polaroid to share with us…

Softer pieces in grey dip dyed silk ideal for the New Zealand aesthetic of draping and layering would be easy sales down under but the collection was heavy on black lacing cut-aways suggesting a stronger divide between fashion continents…

Occasionally debut collections are sent down the runway all guns blazing, which are often incredible and creative and unique, but can make one think "how are they going to keep that up for next season?"

Trelise Kids brought cuteness and innocence to the catwalk at fashion week, wandering between the mushrooms with giant bows in the hair and dressed in tutus and tiny leather jackets…

There were highlights…and then there were lowlights. Here are the Thread.co.nz team’s hits and misses of Fashion Week 2010, from both on and off the catwalk…

Scone with cream, anyone? Over high tea in the Great Room at Auckland’s Langham Hotel, the WORLD show was easily the most glamorous and civilised of the week…

NomD. They just don’t do ‘ordinary’. A huge old dilapidated warehouse in Wellesley Street was the backdrop for a gothic ghostly dinner party where a chaste but eerie bedroom, a rocky desolate ‘coven’ and a junkyard car all set the stage…

Upholstery seems to have been the inspiration for this collection from Alexandra Owen AW 2011 with piped and stuffed collars, beautiful tucking and covered buttoning on oversized pocketsall in a subdued colour palette…

The Sera Lilly show started with a theatrical bang. After a short video clip, a huge white curtain that enveloped the entire catwalk was dropped to reveal all 45 models already dressed and made up…

Sole sister Kathryn Wilson sent Robert Palmer leotard-clad models walking down a raised fashion week catwalk for her AW11 footwear collection; all very red, black and white and very rock ‘n roll…