Far Flung Fashion Report

Dunedin’s distance from the rest of the fashion world “does not stop it being far-thinking in creativity”, reports the Telegraph’s fashion director New Zealand-born Hilary Alexander, who was front row at the iD Emerging Designers Award during Dunedin Fashion Week, which ran 27 March through1 April. “Fruit-scented suits and dresses, made by pouring a liquid fibre foam into carved-out polystyrene moulds; men’s suits in organic linen with live moss growing on sleeves and yokes (and needing the occasional watering); and quantum physics inspiring futuristic uniforms involving up to 240m of string being hand-woven through drilled-out holes in flexible PVC, were just some of the more complex and unusual design concepts unveiled.”