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

The thumping bass line from The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up provided the perfect statement track for the welcome return of Lonely Hearts to the NZFW schedule.

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

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.

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.

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.

The close knit family behind local label Sabatini kicked off NZ Fashion Week celebrations this morning with champagne and canapés at the Hilton's Bellini bar.

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.

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.

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.