Sylvester debuts outdoors-inspired collection in Sydney

Models wear creations from Kate Sylvester's Take a Hike collection. Photos / Getty Images

New Zealand designer Kate Sylvester made a splash as she unveiled her collection, Take a Hike, at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week yesterday.

The outdoors-inspired designs saw models take to the runway in tramping shorts and anorak-style dresses teamed with wader-style legwarmers or brightly-coloured Doc Martens.

Floppy fishing hats, nylon backpacks and chunky bone-style necklaces were used as accessories.

The Australian described the collection as "bright and breezy" and picked an ecru tutu teamed with legwarmers as the stand-out look of the show.

Meanwhile, reports have surfaced that opportunistic thieves made off with some of the sought-after front row goodie bags when the fashion week venue was plunged into darkness during a power outage earlier this week.

The bags for the Zimmermann show each contained "a couple of hundred dollars" worth of loot, according to Australia's Daily Telegraph.

Show organisers were forced to scoop up the remaining bags and redistribute them 40 minutes later when the lights came back on, the paper reported.

- NZ HERALD STAFF