Newcomer off to Australian Fashion Week

Trelise Cooper

At least six New Zealand designers are heading to Australian Fashion Week next month. Kate Sylvester, World, Trelise Cooper, Zambesi, Holic, Sample Only and fashion newcomer Jimmy D - the winner of a major new fashion award, Mercedes Benz Start Up New Zealand - will show their spring/summer 2005/06 collections.

The event is in its 10th year and all the designers taking part were asked to do a commemorative painting for the celebrations. Cooper's effort - a catwalk parade superimposed with an image of the Sydney Opera House - has been chosen ahead of all others to feature on a flag that will fly around Circular Quay, where Fashion Week is being held.

The painting was a collaboration between Cooper and her art director Andrew Trott.