Photos from behind the scenes at the Nom*D show during last year's NZ Fashion Week.

If you have the bone structure, eyes don't always need the standard mascara/liner/smudgy shadow combo to stand out.

One day I'll be a Zambesi person, spending my winters stomping about bleak moors, reading Jack Kerouac.

Nom*D's Margi Robertson knows how to play to her strengths after a distinguished career as the darkhorse from Dunedin.

Photos from behind the scenes at Zambesi's 2009 NZ Fashion Week show.

Rumour is Pamela Anderson, tipped to fly into Auckland tomorrow, has snuck into town early.

When it comes down to it, fashion is about you - the consumer who will eventually go out and spend your hard-earned cash on the clothes that are being presented this week

Photos from the Kate Sylvester show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Trelise Cooper show at last year's NZ Fashion Week

Photos from the Salasai show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from The Carpenter's Daughter show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Sera Lilly show at NZ Fashion Week 2009.

Photos of Dunedin label Nom*D's collection at NZ Fashion Week 2009.

We love it when a designer has a back-story for her collection, and this winter Alexandra Owen has channelled healthy English gels.

Photos from behind the scenes at Annah Stretton's show during NZ Fashion Week 2009.

The instructions to Annah Stretton's creative crew says it all: "Think of the infamous Forties burlesque dancer, Freda Stark".

Photos from behind the scenes at Twenty-seven names and Juliette Hogan.

It was all about occasion dressing at Basquesse this year, with fascinators and sequins in no short supply.

Six Fashion Week style-setters let us in on their secrets to looking good for the long haul

Group shows are sometimes problematic, but Twenty-seven names and Juliette Hogan twinned well.

Sable & Minx showed a series of unmemorable designs this year.

Photos from behind the scenes at the Sable & Minx show.

Designer Cybele Wiren has cornered a market in fluid silk pieces cunningly cut to drape beautifully.