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.

Huffer thinks big and having invited around 1000 people along to its Fashion Week show, luckily for it the weather gods were in a good mood.

Check out Huffer's NZ Fashion Week 2010 show held at the Owen Glenn building at the University of Auckland Business School.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scenesters queued an hour for entry to the Mercury Theatre, then squeezed in for a show called Last Night's Party.

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.

Oh the Worlds, you look forward to their shows like you look forward to Christmas.

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.