If making the iD judges laugh took contestants any closer to winning first prize at the International Emerging Designer Award, Sydney designer Mat Lee took a big step forward yesterday.
Some young designers came with big ideas about freedom, saving the oppressed, exposing the effects of viruses and to question ideas of beauty.
Nobody chooses to wear black. Black chooses you. It grows on you, slowly obliterating all colours, sucking them in and robbing them of light, until only black is left, and the wearer approaches colours with an understandable degree of trepidation.
Dunedin will host an Italian-registered ship and eight crew members over winter, as the ship takes a break from cutting through the Antarctic sea ice.
Dunedin jeweller Lynn Kelly's collection for the iD Dunedin Fashion Week includes what she calls ‘‘day-to-day pieces''.
In some situations men are quite superfluous - in fact they hamper proceedings as an irritating inconvenience.
The body of former Dunedin bar owner Mark Deason is expected back in Dunedin today, after the 41-year-old died following a motorbike crash in Denpasar, Bali.
Ten houses in the Dunedin area remained without power over the weekend after high winds caused widespread cuts last Thursday night.
The 17th edition of Dunedin's iD Fashion week is set to flounce poised and imperious into the city this week.
Pablo Picasso reached across the years to inspire Dunedin schoolchildren yesterday.
A previous owner of the former well-known Dunedin student bar the Bowler has died after a motorcycle crash in Bali.
David Loughrey went to university to hear arguments for the existence of God. He found nothing happens without a cause, but the possibilities are disturbingly infinite.
The University of Otago has laid carpet and resurfaced slippery steps in its Commerce Building atrium in a $120,000 temporary fix, and released designs of its promised $15 million redevelopment.
Kiwi Regional Airlines is adding an extra two flights a week from Dunedin to Nelson and return with stopovers in Christchurch, in a move chief executive Ewan Wilson says should push the business into profitability.
Dunedin has a new taxi company, with the latest addition boasting green credentials.
Danny Healy came from Sydney keen to enjoy Dunedin's walking tracks, but struggled to find where they were.
A week of good numbers and relatively good behaviour has the Otago University Students' Association happy as O Week comes to a close.
A constant crush of students packed the Union Building link at the University of Otago yesterday, as clubs from circus performing to tramping, ice hockey to sceptics, did their best to sign them up.
About 3000 chanting students survived an attack by slingshot-wielding young men who pelted them with eggs and water balloons as they lined up for the annual Otago University Students' Association toga party last night.
The iD Emerging Designers Awards attracted a sellout crowd of 1400 people to the Dunedin Town Hall last night. Otago Daily Times photographer Peter McIntosh captured the 28 collections modelled on the runway.
