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![Police suspect plan to dump Carmen at sea](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Police suspect plan to dump Carmen at sea
A boat belonging to a friend of murder accused Brad Callaghan has been taken by police for forensic testing.
![<i>Duncan Gillies</i>: Something doesn't fit about fashion](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Duncan Gillies</i>: Something doesn't fit about fashion
I grew up in Gisborne, where most people I knew wore hand-me-downs that had been in circulation since the arrival of the early settlers.
![Expert Eye: Huffer 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: Huffer 2010
Huffer thinks big and having invited around 1000 people along to its Fashion Week show, luckily for it the weather gods were in a good mood.
![Expert Eye: NZFW Retrospective show 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: NZFW Retrospective show 2010
It was bouquets and applause for 10 years of Fashion Week at a special Retrospective show featuring old favourites and lost labels.
![Carmen: Search teams sift through rubble](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Carmen: Search teams sift through rubble
Search teams spent the day at the bottom of a hole in a central Auckland building site, dredging and sifting through bucket loads of grey water and rubble, in the search for clues as to the whereabouts of Carmen Thomas' body.
![Backstage Beauty at The Carpenters Daughter 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Backstage Beauty at The Carpenters Daughter 2010
Last season it was Thirties depression, this year inspiration for The Carpenters Daughter show ticked back to the Edwardian period.
![Expert Eye: Blak 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: Blak 2010
Blak makes wearable pieces for women who like the idea of buying from smaller shops not chain stores.
![Expert Eye: Miromoda 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: Miromoda 2010
Pacman with a moko and Superman with the famous S symbol picked out in a carved pattern where just some of the nice twists modernising Maori design at the Miromoda show.
![Fatal crash driver accused who fled police named](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Fatal crash driver accused who fled police named
The man accused of killing two passengers when he crashed while fleeing police in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga can now be named.
![<i>Clooney</i>, Freemans Bay](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Clooney</i>, Freemans Bay
Clooney is one of Auckland's prime restaurants, with a menu to die for.
![Carmen: Emergency staff lowered into hole](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Carmen: Emergency staff lowered into hole
Search and rescue staff were this morning lowered down a hole at the central Auckland building site where the man charged with the murder of Auckland escort Carmen Thomas worked.
![Backstage Beauty at Stolen Girlfriends Club 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Backstage Beauty at Stolen Girlfriends Club 2010
The boys and girls at Stolen Girlfriends Club had to look beautiful even though it was the day after the hardest party.
![Sex and the city: Sky Tower gets new neighbour](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Sex and the city: Sky Tower gets new neighbour
Sex industry magnates are to open a 'massage' club directly opposite the Sky Tower and flanked by residential buildings and shops.
![<i>Gill South</i>: Doing it rough for the night](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Gill South</i>: Doing it rough for the night
Fundraiser to aid the homeless gives executives the chance to do good, and be better role models.
![Expert Eye: Stolen Girlfriends Club 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: Stolen Girlfriends Club 2010
Scenesters queued an hour for entry to the Mercury Theatre, then squeezed in for a show called Last Night's Party.
![Expert Eye: Salasai 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: Salasai 2010
Daring to be different is paying big dividends for Salasai with its shows getting consistently stronger each season.
![Expert Eye: Michelle Yvette 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: Michelle Yvette 2010
The lady has made many an appearance on the NZFW runways this week; Michelle Yvette's take on her was a glam starlet walking the red carpet - literally.
![Expert Eye: AgResearch show 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Expert Eye: AgResearch show 2010
The future of wool is bright, thanks to some high-tech fabrics developed by New Zealand scientists, which were put through their paces by eight designers today.
![Backstage Beauty at World 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Backstage Beauty at World 2010
Oh the Worlds, you look forward to their shows like you look forward to Christmas.
![Backstage Beauty at Trelise Cooper 2010](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Backstage Beauty at Trelise Cooper 2010
The brief for the Trelise Cooper show to M.A.C creative director Amber D, and to Grant Bettjeman for hair, was for angelic girls: soft but powerful.