Dylan McCutcheon-Peat will see his collection on a new two-level runway at the show that has taken over as the big ticket event for iD Dunedin Fashion.
The committee that runs the event, now headed by polytechnic academic leader of fashion Margo Barton, announced late last year the Dunedin Railway Station show, which had been the heart of the event, would be dropped.
Instead, the emerging designers section, which had an international reach and a better chance of attracting sponsors, would be the focus.
This week, Dr Barton announced 46 emerging designers from 21 countries had been picked from a record 200 entries.
Those countries included everywhere from Croatia to the United States and Bangladesh to Canada, as well as the more traditional entrants from Australia and China.
The main shows would be held over two nights at the Dunedin Town Hall, which would be fitted out to create an "extensive multi-level runway" to allow for additional front-row seats and closer audience seating overall.
Eight New Zealand emerging designers were picked, but only one of those was from Dunedin.
Mr McCutcheon-Peat said he developed his collection Is he a Tomgirl? last year, in his final year at the Otago Polytechnic design school.
Between now and the May show he had the opportunity to add to the collection, but did not plan to extend it.
"It’s about male sexuality and the idea of objectification of women in terms of clothing.
"I wanted to subvert the idea of objectifying the man’s body."
For that he used lingerie and traditional men’s tailoring, working them together to show the "sexual semiotics" of what the clothing held.
