NZ Fashion Week enters day two with charity show
New Zealand Fashion Week is well underway at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre, today is the second of four full days of designer shows.
On the catwalk last night was a fashion show with a difference as the Starjam charity teamed up with Annah Stretton to give a group of models the opportunity of a lifetime.
One of the models, Mary, is blind. So one of the Silver Ferns guided her down the runway, but even with the company it was a little nerve-wracking.
“I wont know where I am going and it will be exciting, but I'll be pretty nervous,” she says.
The Starjam Charity's mission is to empower the disabled to live with purpose and to broaden the perceptions of those around them.
The idea for the show came from Starjam founder Julie Bartlett after meeting designer Annah Stretton.
“I was both excited and scared by it, and we thought lets do it… a fantastic forum for our young people in all their shapes and sizes, and in all their perfection of who they are, to just get out there on the catwalk,” she says.
There are very few fashion week shows which get a standing ovation and even fewer where the models are having even more fun than the audience, a refreshing reminder that beauty comes in many forms.
3 News, Kate Rodger
