Jessica Grubisa is hoping her love of hip-hop will lead to a catwalk slot for her designs at New Zealand Fashion Week.

The ten finalists in this year's Westpac Young Fashion Designer Competition have been announced.

New Zealand's aspiring fashion designers have just a few more days to submit their entries for this year's Westpac Young Fashion Designer Competition.

There are new names are on the bill for NZ Fashion Week, but also some notable absences.

Rachael Duval is among three young designers whose works will feature in this year's New Zealand Fashion Week.

The wild weather bomb that hit the 10th New Zealand Fashion Week made everyone feel a bit drippy. At times the front row resembled a row of sodden crows on a wire, as fabulous baubles and sexy shoes were abandoned in favour of warm clothes.

Forget the frocks, this year hair and makeup rocks.

One of NZ's top international models has suffered a potentially career-ending broken nose.

Some of the more memorable moments from New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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

The Department Store's NZ Fashion Week 2010 show, featuring Karen Walker, Topshop, Nike and Black Box.

Krista White spent eight years auditioning a dozen times before making it on to America's Next Top Model.

Yesterday, Shortland Street fans got a glimpse of what some of the sexy cast wear beneath their clothes.

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.

With many designers this week looking back for inspiration, it was the industry's turn to celebrate its past with the 10 year NZ Fashion Week Retrospective show last night.

Some of the most memorable past creations from New Zealand designers were showcased during the Retrospective show on the final day of NZ Fashion Week 2010.

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.

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.