A boat belonging to a friend of murder accused Brad Callaghan has been taken by police for forensic testing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The boys and girls at Stolen Girlfriends Club had to look beautiful even though it was the day after the hardest party.

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.

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.

Daring to be different is paying big dividends for Salasai with its shows getting consistently stronger each season.

Metal maidens were the muse at Jimmy D's dark take on design.

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.