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.

Creative fashion and bizarre bras at last night's World of Wearable Arts awards.

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.

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.

Designer Blaire Archibald tells Viva about his unique style philosophy.

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.

The boys and girls at Stolen Girlfriends Club had to look beautiful even though it was the day after the hardest party.

Another Fashion Week and the models are getting old. Not old old, obviously - that's not allowed.

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

Zero-waste design is a means of creating clothes that minimises fabric disposal. At the forefront of this move is Holly McQuillan. Viva finds out more.

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.

The future of wool is bright, thanks to some high-tech fabrics developed by New Zealand scientists, which were put through their paces by eight designers today.