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.

The Trelise Cooper Kids show at NZ Fashion Week 2010.

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.

The Miromoda collection show during New Zealand Fashion Week 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.

Up-dos, ponytails, braids and brush-outs are all figuring as hair looks in various guises at Fashion Week. Here Lauren Gunn explains how to achieve cutting-edge versions of two of these looks at home.

The makeup look for Stolen Girlfriends Club's show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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

Another Fashion Week and the models are getting old. Not old old, obviously - that's not allowed.

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

Photos from the Stolen Girlfriends Club show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

Photos from the Salasai show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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.

Photos from Michelle Yvette's show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 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.

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.

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.

Photos from Annah Stretton's show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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

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

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

Photos from Nicole Miller's show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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

Behind the scenes at the Nicole Miller show for NZ Fashion Week 2010.

Photos from The Carpenter's Daughter show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

The makeup look for Alexandra Owen's show on day two of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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

The Alexandra Owen woman is always a woman apart – a clean, cool beauty, elegant, rather structured.