Just about everyone at the iD Dunedin Fashion Week official opening was good-looking.
Of those who weren’t good-looking, almost all were extremely fashionable.
Those who weren’t fashionable were important people from here and there, directors and chief executives of city institutions.
It was the cool place to be.
But the city’s premiere fashion event had been sailing stormy waters, iD Dunedin Fashion Week committee chairwoman Margo Barton told attendees at Vault 21 bar in the Octagon.
The committee ended last year’s event with reduced income, in part because of Adele concerts in Auckland that drained Dunedin of residents when the event was held last year.
The committee had been nervous about the sustainability of the event.
But the hard road trodden by the committee had paid off, as the quality of entrants to the emerging designers show had shown.
Dr Barton said people would see the results at this evening’s show.
Mayor Dave Cull said Dunedin was becoming the city of choice for emerging designers, and noted the increasing contribution the Otago Polytechnic fashion design school was making to the city.
