Shows from young labels Twenty-Seven Names and Salasai were highlights on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week.

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.

Photos of the makeup look for Trelise Cooper's show on day two of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

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.

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.

Turet Knueffermann's first local runway outing for some time looked assured.

A gorgeously girlish show from Twentysevennames was a lyrical start to day three of Fashion Week.

Colleagues who arrived early and wormed their way forward at last night's Nom*d installation mentioned models acting up and a whip being wielded.

The people in the Fashion Week crowd that really matter are the ones who can make or break a label - the buyers.

DIY looks from the runway.

Photos from Twentysevennames' show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

Photos from backstage before Twentysevennames' show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

Photos from backstage before Nom*D's show on day three of New Zealand Fashion Week 2010.

This was a salon-style show with guests to name drop seated for high tea in the Langham Hotel's mirrored great room.

Alexandra Owen was annointed the next big thing a few years back and deservedly so.