Fashion
Week 2012 iD Dunedin, ruffled feathers enthused audiences, inspired
bright young minds and changed some of them forever. What started as one
show has now grown to an entire week of fashionable and outstanding
events, parties, design previews and seminars. The iD Emerging Designers
Awards took over the Edgar Center on Thursday night, with 28
collections from young designers representing seven countries. Guest
judge and British fashion journalist
Hilary Alexander
was blown away by the high level of talent and creativity at the
Dunedin Fashion show awards. “Emerging-talent schemes such as these are a
real ‘fashion laboratory’ where all kinds of excitement can be conjured
up” she said. Despite numerous entries from New Zealand contestants, it
was the Australians who cleaned up this year, with first prize going to
Carolina Barua,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology;
second to Patricia Kapeleris, University of Technology Sydney; and
third place to Natalia Grzybowski of University of Technology Sydney.
Chris Ran Lin of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology won the
Mittelmoda prize, giving him direct entry into the illustrious
Mittelmoda fashion design competition in Italy. Friday and Saturday
night saw the much anticipated iD Fashion Show, held at the
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