Sandwiched between Angelina Jolie and Justin Timberlake, on one of the world's leading fashion websites - Vogue Italia - was an exciting place for Otago Polytechnic to be.
An interview with fashion school academic leader Margo Barton, conducted when she was in Italy for the Mittelmoda Fashion Awards, featured on the magazine's website home page last week.
Their relationship started in May when the school was asked to nominate recent graduates to appear in the magazine's September issue.
Three unidentified students will have photos of their collections, work sketches, a biography and portrait, feature in the next issue, which Ms Barton expected to be "out any day".
Airmail issues would take about a week to arrive in Dunedin.
The interview focuses on her experience of teaching at the "fashion school that's closest to the Antarctic".
"Dunedin is very insular; it's a long way away. There are lots of positives about being so far away from culture, but equally there are lots of restrictions," she said in the interview.
In order to overcome this, students were encouraged to travel and designers were brought to Dunedin in order to give them an understanding of "themselves and also what's happening in the marketplace".
