Senior journalist – Premium lifestyle·NZ Herald·
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In 2004, broadcaster Jeremy Wells was Eating Media Lunch and drinking Fashion Week wine. Photo / Nicola Topping
If Dan Carter, Nicky Watson or (insert minor Shortland Street celeb here) wasn’t in the front row and nobody was there to photograph it, did New Zealand Fashion Week even happen?
From a pre-Hollywood Taika Waititi to a pre-Prime Ministerially adjacent Clarke Gayford, the audience has always attracted as many
cameras as the runway. (Witness Mike Hosking in a questionably embossed suit, Lucy Lawless in a moustache and Alison Mau, snapped at the very first event in 2001).
From Shortland Street to Fashion Week, actors Angela Bloomfield (left) and Claire Chitham at Nom D, 2003. Photo / Nicola Topping