iD Dunedin Fashion Week
Front Row for the Un-initiated
Her Magazine roving reporter, Lynda Davison gives her highlights of iD Dunedin Fashion Week 2012
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT Dunedin may be the only place on earth where one can expect to see puffa jackets and flats shouldering plush velvets, bare skin and impossible stilettos at the same fashion show. It occurred to me the puffa jackets had been here before. Some had even packed a thermos and a wee 'nana rug' for the evening – honest! Another thought that occurred was the missed opportunity for some fabulous plugs for our nation's rugby team because, other than the odd punctuation of colour, the theme appeared to be all-black. I would like to add for the record that my boots were brown and my dress rust and you could see it peaking from under my [black] coat – when I walked at least! We entered in pairs to the cavernous hall of the Railway Station,
which was alive with perfume, hair product, air kissing, many excitable squawks and an all round genuine feeling of something good about
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to happen. The sizeable crowd, as yet unseated, drew a collective breath when a 'two minute till doors shut and the start of the show warning' was issued. Enough chit chat and one and half minutes of concentration saw me glide through the other 250 attendees to what can best be described as fairyland – mainly due to the thousands of fairy lights that had been strewn over the arch ways of the siding creating the effect of entering a tunnel along a predestined pathway. Up a couple of steps I follow the people in front. Suddenly the
crowd is gone and it is you alone wandering along the path thinking it looks an awfully long way to the end when suddenly, the OMG moment. You realise you are on the catwalk! You are walking down the longest fashion runway in the Southern Hemisphere. There are people seated on either side of it looking at you and the lights are even on, and was that a camera flash? The senses are baffled, surely this can't be
iD Dunedin Fashion Week 2012 30-31 March 2012
