Style File: So what to wear?

Don't miss the Weekend Herald for your 16-page magazine wrapping up the key trends of Fashion Week.

It comes with canvas magazine, which asks what is New Zealand style?

Next week in Viva, fashionistas reveal what they loved and loathed.

Second chance

Student designer Bambi Fadhli is getting her life back on track after a decade devastated by war.

The Iraqi was accepted into ballet school in France in 1992, but this fell through when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

So as a teenager she moved to Jordan to teach dance and there she developed an interest in fashion.

After finally joining her family, who had emigrated to New Zealand, she enrolled at AUT and tonight she and 55 other art and design students show their creations in the Max Marquee in Aotea Square. Tickets are $25 from Ticketek.

Red-hot and ready

A firedancer at the Doris de Pont show had the front row checking the emergency exits as the heat went on. Show organisers said later they were ready for a drop-and-roll routine if the flames got out of hand.

Quote of the week

After Nicky Watson's stunning near-naked sashay down the runway on Wednesday, Adrian Hailwood was quick to point out he too had a celebrity model: "I've got Alannah Currie in my show." Not such a storm in a D-cup.

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