iD Dunedin Fashion Week announced new dates for 2011 at an exclusive launch on Thursday 19 August 2010. Now in its 12^th year, this highly successful week celebrating the city’s fashion identity, creativity and distinct style will take place from 5-10 April 2011 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Chair of iD Fashion Week Committee Susie Staley said that the fashion week dates had been moved from March to April to help attract the attendance of international guest designers and judges. 

“We are in the process of securing international guests, with some exciting announcements to be made shortly.  We would like to build on the attention iD has attracted as place on the global fashion calendar, showcasing the best emerging New Zealand and international talent. March is a challenging month for iD to secure international designers or judges due to their other fashion calendar commitments such as London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks. With this in mind we have made a commitment to announce our 2011 dates.”

Staley added that the change in dates also provides an opportunity to attract visitors to Dunedin during a shoulder season.

The iD Fashion Week Committee acknowledged ongoing support from the Dunedin City Council event funding, providing a commitment to the event over the next three years. Additional funding including a naming rights sponsor is still being sought to allow the 2011 fashion week to run to its full capacity.

The exclusive launch gave attendees a sneak preview of upcoming spring/summer fashion collections by successful Dunedin designers and retailers Carlson, Charmaine Reveley, DADA (Marie Strauss) and Waughs, and retail outlets Bellebird and White by Design. The collections were showcased by local talent from Ali McD Modelling Agency.

A complimentary Absolut Charmaine Reveley cocktail designed by Charmaine Reveley – showing another string to her creative bow – alongside canapés by award-winning Pier 24 chef Michael Coughlin made the launch a highly stimulating mix of fashion and food. 

Spot prizes at the launch were provided by Carlson, Charmaine Reveley, Life Pharmacy, Revlon and Waughs. Goodie bags were provided by Life Pharmacy.

Watch out for further details on the 2011 iD Dunedin Fashion Week and exclusive events to follow, yet to be announced.

The ‘sell out’ launch event commenced at 5.45pm on Thursday 19 August at Pier 24, St Clair Beach Resort, Dunedin.  Over 100 guests attended.

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Starting a new school year can be stressful, and the latest trends and must-have basics available from Thomas Pink and Montblanc ensure you stay in style so you can better focus on your studies.

For men, bold, preppy plaid shirts, timeless tweed blazers and crisp, poplin shirts make a style statement, while the Thomas Pink women’s collection, inspired by vintage influences, offers versatile boyfriend shirts, beautifully tailored silk blouses and luxurious soft knits.

From everyday appeal to after school chic, the Thomas Pink Autumn/Winter Collection has something for everyone this back to school season.

Brand new this season, Thomas Pink provides you with the ultimate in style and durability with its latest collection, the Comfort Stretch.

The slim fit style with a semi cut away collar and double button cuff details will set you apart from the rest. Offering a selection of eight stunning colors, the Comfort Stretch Shirt is constructed to provide additional durability, exceptional comfort and enough ‘give’ to accommodate all day movement.

Not only do the neutral tones in Montblanc’s Fall watch collections make a cinch to pair it with all your back to school attire, but an investment in a great timepiece can make it an accessory you’ll have well into your future career. These styles especially are elegant and timeless, and make quite the impressive statement

Otago Polytechnic Fashion graduate Roxanna Zamani has achieved yet another notch on her awards belt, taking out a Fashion tv Oceania Online Design Award on Monday 19^th July.

The 24 year old won first prize in the Evening Wear/Couture category, before being announced the overall prize winner for her designs, which will be showcased at the Perth Fashion Festival in September this year.

Following the completion of a Bachelor of Design (Fashion) in 2009, Ms. Zamani and Ms Hardy were first noticed when they were selected to show at the 2010 iD Dunedin Fashion Week, and the iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards in Dunedin.

This has been a year of fashion success for Ms. Zamani, originally from Invercargill, who recently won the Wedding Italian Style Award, in the prestigious Mittelmoda Fashion Awards, in Gorizia, Italy.

Fellow Otago Polytechnic graduate Sophie Hardy, who attended Mittelmoda, has also achieved a win at the Fashiontv Awards, taking out the Lifestyle Collections category.

Fashiontv was founded in France in 1997, and has since become one of the best distributed fashion satellite channels in the world featuring up to date and cutting edge footage, the latest fashion trends, models, parades and events.

“We are absolutely thrilled with their achievements,” said Otago Polytechnic School of Fashion Academic Leader Margo Barton.  “Roxanna and Sophie are competing at an international level and winning major awards. As young and upcoming designers, they have already made some major headway in the fashion industry.”

“This is also a strong reflection of the high calibre of design students that graduate from the Polytechnic.” 

The success of the Fashion programme mirrors the growth of Design at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin with the School now hosting more than 500 students from around New Zealand and the world, and offering degrees in Fashion, Product, Communications and Interior Design

India is buzzing with anticipation as blockbuster Bollywood feature film I Hate Luv Storys, partly filmed in Queenstown, premieres tomorrow (Friday 2 July) in India and across the World.

Starring the latest Bollywood heart throbs Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor, the plot revolves around a couple coming to film a ‘Bollywood love story’ in Queenstown and getting caught up in their own love story at the same time.

Tourism New Zealand Regional Manager India & South East Asia, Kiran Nambiar played a leading role himself in attracting the film-makers to New Zealand . He also spent time with the crew during filming in Queenstown to help make sure things went smoothly.

The blockbuster will showcase Queenstown and New Zealand as a visitor destination to an expected audience of 150 million during its run.

“With growth in Indian arrivals expected be modest over the coming months I Hate Luv Storys, tipped to be a Bollywood success, is a fantastic opportunity for New Zealand to increase exposure in this developing market,” says Tourism New Zealand Chief Executive Kevin Bowler.

Ria van Dyke, sponsored by Econo-Heat, has taken the Miss Universe New Zealand title for 2010 in front of a packed audience at Wellington's Duxton Hotel on Saturday.

Miss East Auckland, Danijela Unkovich, is runner-up, while Miss Auckland, Caren Freeman, is second runner-up.Miss van Dyke, 21, holds a BA (Hons.) with distinction in psychology and sociology. She will now represent New Zealand at Miss Universe in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 23.

After celebrating, Miss van Dyke returns to Auckland to complete two essays due Monday for her master’s degree.

Val Lott, director of the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant, says, 'I am delighted with the decision, and to understand it was unanimous makes me even happier.'

Ms Lott says she was very impressed with the reception and support Wellingtonians have given to the pageant.

Jack Yan, publisher of Lucire, headed the judging panel. 'Ria did extremely well and was consistent from the swimwear section on Friday night, through a gruelling interview at the Museum Hotel, to tonight's final at the Duxton,' he says.

He says that Miss van Dyke speaks from the heart and has the level of international experience that makes her ideal for Miss Universe New Zealand 2010.

He served on the panel with stylist Samantha Hannah, model scout Evana Patterson, international judge Dina Janse van Rensburg, and Salute Hair director Carl Manderson.

The judges said that the calibre was very high this year, with very fluent and well spoken contestants.

One contestant, Nafeesa Moses, already holds a master’s degree, and both Miss van Dyke and Miss Wellington, Regan Hillyer, are studying toward theirs.

The show was MCed by TVNZ's Matt McLean and Miss Universe New Zealand 2008 Samantha Powell.

Katie Taylor, Miss Universe New Zealand 2009, delivered a touching speech on her experiences since her own crowning last April.

More than 80 media representatives from New Zealand and Australia attended the fashion week and participated in the week long fashion activities.

A glamorous week of fashion events concluded in the nation’s unconventional fashion frontier. Twenty-one established, emerging and talented new designers celebrated the eleventh year of iD Dunedin Fashion Week with their latest winter collections

Zandra Rhodes, international fashion designer gave fashion followers an exotic taste of her timeless fashion on the catwalk at the iD Dunedin Fashion Show on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March, 2010.

Her fabulous collection was breathtakingly beautiful with delicate chiffon pieces and opulent evening wear from the 1970s to present day.

Striking pieces of jewellery accompanied her collection from international sculptor and jeweller Andrew Logan, including huge mirrored bracelets, intricate tiaras and stunning jewelled butterfly broches.

Showcasing their Winter 2010 collections, six high profile labels graced the catwalk including Nom*D, Carlson and Mild Red alongside the ever popular labels Cherry Cotton Candy, Charmaine Reveley and twenty-seven names. New labels to iD this year were menswear label Rembrandt and Company of Strangers, by Sara Aspinall. 

Two Capsule Collections featured mini collections from seven designers with Iris, Elusiv, BurtenShaw and Jane Sutherland accompanied by newcomers Vaughan Geeson, Lela Jacobs and Lou and Ash .

The Saturday night iD Show was a sell out with over 3100 attending both nights, enthralled by Ali McD’s models who paced the 110m long runway in true style. 

Dynamic duo and popular media personalities John Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld were reunited as hosts and kept the crowd entertained.

Louise Pilkington, part of the Redken artistic team, rose to the challenge of heading up the backstage styling for the iD Fashion Show, accompanied by the Revlon makeup artistic team, which was headed by modelling agency director Aliana McDaniel. 

The iD shows also featured highlights from the iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Award winners from Thursday 11 March with first place and Mittelmoda prize winner Igor Galas, from the Faculty of Textile Design, Zagreb, Croatia.

Second place prize winner Ryota Shiga, Sugino Fashion College, Japan, and third place prize winner Ichiro Suzuki, London College of Fashion, UK. • The iD Dunedin Fashion week commenced on Monday 8 March and featured over 16 successful key events during the week.

Following the success of last year’s inaugural Love Ball, Natalia Vodianova and Lucy Yeomans, Editor-in-Chief of Harper’s Bazaar UK, last February 24 hosted The Love Ball, proudly supported by De Beers in aid of the Naked Heart Foundation.

Natalia Vodianova was radiant in a stunning De Beers necklace made of pear-cut diamonds, totalling over 122 carats.

The glittering event was attended by the worlds of fashion, art and high society including Kate Moss, Joely Richardson, Stella McCartney, Donna Karan, Elizabeth Hurley, Diane von Furstenberg, Harvey Weinstein, Mario Testino, Matthew Williamson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Ernesto Bertarelli and Mariacarla Boscono, stunning in the beautiful Arabesque earrings and cuff from De Beers Guests admired the centrepiece of the event and evening’s charity auction, The Magic Moment necklace, designed by Natalia herself and created by De Beers.

Inspired by the precious moment when two people meet, Natalia recalled the famous love poem by Pushkin (A Magic moment I remember…) when designing the piece. Natalia also wanted to capture her own magic moment, the instant she saw the children’s happiness and excitement at the first playground opened by the Naked Heart Foundation.

“Designing this piece with De Beers was an experience I will treasure forever. Creating something so precious that truly represents my passion for the Naked Heart Foundation was a unique opportunity for which I will be eternally grateful.” Natalia Vodianova.

“We are honoured to have been able to support The Naked Heart Foundation and are proud that the beautiful Magic Moment necklace contributed to Natalia’s spectacular evening of fundraising. Her natural elegance and flair made this piece truly exquisite and we hope that the new owner will treasure it not only for its breathtaking beauty but also for the generosity of spirit it represents. This fantastic evening was truly a magical moment, and the start of a wonderful collaboration between De Beers and The Naked Heart Foundation”, François Delage, CEO of De Beers Diamond Jewellers.

The delicate diamond studded chains of The Magic Moment necklace gently encircle the body and capture two De Beers pink and white heart shaped diamonds, a reference to love ensnaring and seizing a heart at that magical moment.

The central pendant features a 1.10 carat fancy intense pink heart-shaped diamond, paired with a 3.06 carat white heart-shaped diamond, hand set in delicate micropavé adding texture and depth. The pendant dances elegantly on a chain of white gold, studded with white, pink and yellow diamonds, part of the chain is detachable for versatility.

The Magic Moment necklace can be worn either as an intricate statement or as a sophisticated pendant. The necklace was displayed throughout the evening, allowing guests the opportunity to admire the expert craftsmanship and diamond selection that epitomises De Beers Diamond Jewellery, and guests were entertained by Leona Lewis, Sharleen Spiteri, Yusuf Islam and Paloma Faith During the evening, this one of a kind piece was auctioned along with bespoke pieces of art by the likes of Tracey Emin, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Peter Blake, Jeff Koons, Marc Quinn and Anselm Reyle.

The Auckland pair behind label 21Grams, Andrew McCulloch and Shaun Bay, have launched a new e-store that sells a variety of streetwear fashion brands.

“Online shopping is becoming more popular and getting easier for the consumer to utilize,” says McCulloch.

“I mean, who doesn’t want to be able to buy the latest gear without having to even get out of their slippers?” he says. Called Stitched.co.nz, the estore will focus on providing quality men’s and women’s streetwear along with skate boards, accessories, shoes and more, all at competitive prices.

“We aimed to make shopping on the site as easy and enjoyable as possible while maintaining fast delivery times and great customer service,” says McCulloch.

The site has been set up so customers can access hand selected brands from around the world without having to deal with exchange rates or high shipping costs.

“Some of brands we will sell are smaller, more underground labels,” says Bay. “We want to help them get their gear out to the public, because there is some cool labels in New Zealand that either don’t get the exposure they deserve or are so new that most of the general public haven’t discovered them yet,” he says.

As well as 21Grams, the site will offer ABC, 57Cartel and Simply Complicated; with garments ranging in price from $50 to around $400.

 Popular TV3 personality, and M2 Woman of the Year, Samantha Hayes, has been confirmed as the host for the Emerging Designer Awards on Thursday 11 March.

Crowd favourites and dynamic duo Carol Hirschfeld and John Campbell will return to host the iD Fashion show on Saturday, 13 March.

Carol will host the iD Fashion Show on Friday 12 March in true style, following her outstanding performance as host at the first iD Emerging Designer Awards show in 2005.

The 2010 iD Dunedin Fashion Week Emerging Designer Awards show has a very limited number of tickets available, while tickets are still available for the two iD Fashion shows held on 12 and 13 March 2010.

The judges for the 2010 iD Dunedin Fashion Week Emerging Designer Awards are: Zandra Rhodes, international fashion designer; Stefano Sopelza, Mittelmoda Fashion Award Project Supervisor, Italy; Katie Newton, fashion and beauty editor of the Sunday Star Times, Sunday Magazine; and, Isaac Hindin-Miller, fashion blogger. Judges for the jewellery section of the Awards are: David McLeod, Dunedin sculptor and jeweller; and, Andrew Logan, international sculptor and jewellery designer.