Fashion mavens will get a different kind of iD experience this April: a festival celebrating all things fashion.
The iD Fashion Festival programme has events for all fashion styles and budgets, including vintage, emerging, and retail fashion shows, panels and expert talks.
“We’re so delighted by the number of events we’ve been able to curate for our first Fashion Festival – the programme is exciting and will give our audiences some new and fun experiences,” said iD Event Manager Victoria Muir.
The Festival offers many opportunities for rich and exclusive insights into the world, past, present and future of fashion.
Paper Theory founder Tara Viggo will move her online sustainable pattern studio to Adjø for a day to offer pattern, sewing and fitting-related advice, while Jeanne Dubois, artist and museum guide, will stream beam in live from the Christian Dior Museum in France to talk about the designer’s story, and showing archival material not seen before in New Zealand.
Meg Gallagher and Cynarra Ferguson will chat about starting as Dunedin high school girls and living real-life Devil Wears Prada lives in their careers as designers and stylists.
Instead of the beloved Railway Station Runway Show, the Festival will feature several catwalk events, including a series of daytime pop-up runways on George Street and an Otago Cancer Society fundraiser evening at Blueskin Nurseries & Cafe.
New Zealand’s young designers will also be displayed As We Watch The World Go, featuring 25 young designers from around the country.
