Dunedin the New Milan?
Two Dunedin fashion graduates will compete on the international fashion design stage, after being selected to contend at the prestigious Mittelmoda Fashion Awards. Sophie Brooke Hardy and Roxanna Zamani will travel to Gorizia in northeast Italy at the end of June, and the prize-winning collections will be exhibited during Milan Fashion Week in September. Hardy and Zamani, graduates of the Otago Polytechnic, are two of 24 finalists that were selected from over 700 hundred candidates in 55 nations to attend the distinguished Mittelmoda Fashion Awards. Both designers completed their Bachelor of Design (Fashion) at Otago Polytechnic in 2009, with Zamani also achieving a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in textiles in 2007.