{"id":570696,"date":"2026-08-16T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570696\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:38:14","slug":"from-the-archives-front-row-celebrity-photos-from-nz-fashion-weeks-first-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570696\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives: Front-row celebrity photos from NZ Fashion Week\u2019s first decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ALJ2ENXDSRA7PF2XCZTS774FNU.png\" alt=\"Kim Knight\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/kim-knight\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Knight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior journalist &#8211; Premium lifestyle\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>16 Aug, 2026 07:00 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"mx-4 mt-2.5 text-xs font-normal leading-5 text-sys-text-premium\">Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.<\/p>\n<p>Copy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">In 2004, broadcaster Jeremy Wells was Eating Media Lunch and drinking Fashion Week wine. Photo \/ Nicola Topping<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If Dan Carter, Nicky Watson or (insert minor Shortland Street celeb here) wasn\u2019t in the front row and nobody was there to photograph it, did New Zealand Fashion Week even happen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         From a pre-Hollywood Taika Waititi to a pre-Prime Ministerially adjacent Clarke Gayford, the audience has always attracted as many<br \/>\n         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).\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The event\u2019s 21st iteration opens tomorrow in Auckland \u2013 and New Zealand Herald photographers have been there from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Scroll down for an archival look at front rows past, featuring All Blacks, actors, politicians, presenters, supermodels, musicians and absolutely anybody who ever said more than three words on a locally made reality television show. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"From Shortland Street to Fashion Week, actors Angela Bloomfield (left) and Claire Chitham at Nom D, 2003. Photo \/ Nicola Topping&#10;\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>From Shortland Street to Fashion Week, actors Angela Bloomfield (left) and Claire Chitham at Nom D, 2003. Photo \/ Nicola Topping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Knight Senior journalist &#8211; Premium lifestyle\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 16 Aug, 2026 07:00 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[170597,2220,212164,3623,380,156,2550,1438,1888,71,1668,123697,38145,191,281412,39937,111,139,20309,12908,69,29767,254,5411,5424,223,684,18324,15358,686,4518,80],"class_list":["post-570696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-archives","tag-carter","tag-celeb","tag-celebrity","tag-decade","tag-entertainment","tag-even","tag-fashion","tag-first","tag-from","tag-front","tag-frontrow","tag-happen","tag-here","tag-insert","tag-minor","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicky","tag-nobody","tag-nz","tag-photograph","tag-photos","tag-shortland","tag-street","tag-the","tag-there","tag-wasnt","tag-watson","tag-week","tag-weeks","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}