The New Generation show this afternoon highlighted five young labels.

Backstage beauty photos from the Hailwood show at Fashion Week 2011.

Photos from the New Generation group show at Fashion Week 2011.

Photos from the Whiri show at Fashion Week 2011.

Day three of fashion week opened with the solo show for Taranaki-based husband and wife team Keri Wanoa and Hemi Sundgren's Whiri label.

Trelise Cooper's fashion presentation opened tonight with her diffusion line Cooper, set to the backdrop of the all-American frontier.

Photos from the Stolen Girlfriends Club show at Fashion Week 2011.

Photos from the Trelise Cooper show at Fashion Week 2011.

Check out the best in NZ wedding fashion show at Fashion Week 2011.

The Jimmy D show entitled It's a Kind of Majik conjured up a new romantic spirit for the quintessential Jimmy D girl today.

Photos from the Jimmy D show at Fashion Week 2011.

Photos from the Celine Rita show at Fashion Week 2011.

Auckland-based designer Celine Chapman went to the 90s with her A/W 12 collection titled Addicted to Love.

Day two of New Zealand Fashion Week got off to a fresh start - with the welcome debut of designer Emily Miller Sharma's new label Liam.

Photos from the combined Ruby and Liam show at Fashion Week 2011.

Raids on "tinnie" houses in South Auckland have resulted in dozens of arrests and the seizure of cannabis, P and cash.

Auckland Transport has spent almost $2 million on a Rugby World Cup facility it hopes it won't have to use during the tournament.

Oh what joy for the last show of the first day to be held in the beautiful St Mathew-in-the-City.

Juliette Hogan's collection felt grown up with a wonderful easy edge.

Wellington designer Laurie Foon knows her market and for winter 2012 she continues to live up to her dedicated followers' expectations.

Designer Adrian Hailwood's autumn/winter collection drew one of the biggest crowds of the day.

Hailwood's brief was grown-up glamour and simplicity, with a feeling of matadors and old Spain.

Sending a bold purple winter coat down the runway first was a strong reminder that Andrea Moore knows her stuff when it comes to tailoring.

It may have seen the first technical glitch of the week but Blak's show was a confident, wearable take on a spooky fairytale theme.

COOP is a new label to come from the Trelise Cooper workroom, although Cooper is not the designer.

For someone in only her fifth season, Ingrid Starnes is incredibly assured.