Culture

‘Twas Wednesday the 6th and iD Fashion Week was truly in full swing.


 
As part of the Starlight Shopping, a regular feature of iD week, various shops released some sweet deals for locals to delight in. The iD theme for the House of G (aka Glassons) was presumably “woodland chic”. Excited girls darted around the displays which were overflowing with bountiful wicker baskets of organic hand plucked apples (thanks to a certain prolific tree in Wingatui), pretty jars of preserves and other treats and titanic amounts of Lipton’s Iced Tea. The 20% off all new season winter stock offered just enough style stimuli to drag rain weary Dunedinites into the light of the Starlight Shopping extravaganza. Suave gentlemen at the door greeted the ladies with copious quantities of tea. Multitasking mayhem ensued with munching apples, sipping tea, hunting for the size, skirting round the DJ throwing some sweet tunes at the crowd and actually scoring one of the sought after changing rooms. So, a rather successful night all round.
 
 
But that’s not all that Dunedin was offering fashion savvy young things. Along the road on St Andrew’s St, there was some serious Lonely-loving going down at Aart - previously located on London St, but man, the new premise is a total industrial-exposed-historic-brick-interior-of-the-moment winner. Belle Bird, Lonely Hearts and Always Sometimes Anytime presented “Freedom”, a projector based photographic project by Sara Orme. Thanks to some sweet sponsorship by Stolen Rum and The Supernatural, the boys from Moon Bar were able to serve up some divine drinks for the styley set well into the night whilst waiters from the restaurant next door flitted round with canapés and tarty goodies. The gorgeous Lonely Hearts PR chic who’d zoomed down from Auckland confirmed that the “must have” piece for this winter is the shearling jacket. Coming in at an easy $760, it shouldn’t break the budget too much. What’s more, divided between a flat of five girls, it’s only a mere $152 each. The shearling collective is on its way. Make haste to Belle Bird. Praise the Lord for Fashion Week.