It was bouquets and applause for 10 years of Fashion Week at a special Retrospective show featuring old favourites and lost labels.

Like beauty, fashion truly is in the eye of the beholder. One lady's haute couture can be another's fashion faux pas.

School term finished early for many lucky kids with an excitable queue forming well before 2pm for the Trelise Cooper Kids show at Fashion Week.

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.

Last season it was Thirties depression, this year inspiration for The Carpenters Daughter show ticked back to the Edwardian period.

Blak makes wearable pieces for women who like the idea of buying from smaller shops not chain stores.

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.

The man accused of killing two passengers when he crashed while fleeing police in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga can now be named.

Clooney is one of Auckland's prime restaurants, with a menu to die for.

Sex industry magnates are to open a 'massage' club directly opposite the Sky Tower and flanked by residential buildings and shops.

Police were last night searching the house of an associate of the man charged with the murder of Auckland mother Carmen Thomas.

A decision on a plan to double the size of Auckland's St Lukes shopping centre has been deferred after angry reactions from local residents.

Fundraiser to aid the homeless gives executives the chance to do good, and be better role models.

Scenesters queued an hour for entry to the Mercury Theatre, then squeezed in for a show called Last Night's Party.

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.

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.

Oh the Worlds, you look forward to their shows like you look forward to Christmas.

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.

Annah Stretton went western for her showing at NZFW this afternoon, with a collection inspired by frontier woman Calamity Jane.

Police investigating the murder of Carmen Thomas have this evening turned their attentions to an east Auckland house, according to a report.

Nicole Miller fitted in like a local at Fashion Week, with the American designer showing a black range.

A hockey representative who bashed a sex worker with a hockey stick and then struck another woman with a car as he was driving away has been jailed for 3-1/4 years.

God bless gaga ... fashion as fantasy swooped down from outer space like an alien invasion on day three of a subdued Fashion Week.

Big girls go goth summed up the darker, more directional mood at The Carpenter's Daughter.

The recent severe weather may have played a part in the birth of a zebra at Auckland Zoo.

A backlit image of Botticelli's Primavera set the stage for an ethereally elegant Trelise Cooper collection.