Showing posts with label Westfield Style Pasifika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westfield Style Pasifika. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

iD Dunedin Crowns Emerging Designer Winner


What’s most impressive about this collection is that Fairgray was able to establish a balance between dipping into the surrealist tendencies of Dali himself yet has also created a collection which is as aesthetically pleasing to the eye as it is to the mind. Fairgray’s well draped dresses and bodices with oh so hot prism shoulders still make for a very marketable and well integrated collection.



Former Otago polytechnic student Laura Marshall explored the fine line between feminine and masculine with her menswear collection “Men in Men’s Clothing”. Marshall flipped the trend of emulating men’s fashion into womenswear (which we are seeing more and more of) and decided to take inspiration from recent women’s wear collections and Victorian menswear to form her most amazing and intricate collection.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Bay Fashion Students Dominate at Westfield Style Pasifika Awards


It comes as no surprise that each year without fail, the Bay of Plenty Polytech boasts at least one finalist in a section of the Westfield Style Pasifika awards. The past seven years have seen multiple wins by fashion students in the Evening Wear and Asia Pacific sections and in 2007 tutors Debra Laraman and Donna Dinsdale took out the Supreme Award.

This year is no different, as we get word that yet again the Bay of Plenty Polytech has at least half a dozen entries in the finals. It is quite a feat for a single fashion educator to pull together such a high count of finalists in the one competition. It is also quite awe inspiring. One has to wonder if there is a hidden secret to this long line of successes..and perhaps there is?

We hope to catch up with the talented students and faculty at the “BOP Poly” and to discover what it is that makes this group tick. But in the meantime congratulations to all of the fashion students and tutors who have worked hard and made it in to the Westfield Style Pasifika Finals this year. Awesome effort and we wish you well on September the 4th.

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