Photos from the Salasai show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from The Carpenter's Daughter show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Sera Lilly show at NZ Fashion Week 2009.

Photos of Dunedin label Nom*D's collection at NZ Fashion Week 2009.

Eight designers reveal their visions for that fashion staple - the Little Black Dress.

Photos from behind the scenes at the Alexandra Owen show during last year's NZ Fashion Week.

We love it when a designer has a back-story for her collection, and this winter Alexandra Owen has channelled healthy English gels.

The instructions to Annah Stretton's creative crew says it all: "Think of the infamous Forties burlesque dancer, Freda Stark".

Photos from behind the scenes at Twenty-seven names and Juliette Hogan.

It was all about occasion dressing at Basquesse this year, with fascinators and sequins in no short supply.

Six Fashion Week style-setters let us in on their secrets to looking good for the long haul

Group shows are sometimes problematic, but Twenty-seven names and Juliette Hogan twinned well.

Sable & Minx showed a series of unmemorable designs this year.

Photos from behind the scenes at the Sable & Minx show.

Designer Cybele Wiren has cornered a market in fluid silk pieces cunningly cut to drape beautifully.

Hair is massively – painfully even- backcombed in the style of the poet-girlfriends assembled in some smoky bar.

The air kisses and the 'sweetie, darhling' greetings are back, reports Rachel Glucina from Fashion Week 2009.

The threat of a US lawsuit and crippling money troubles might have sunk others. But Rachel Easting and Anjali Stewart, the new darlings of the fashion industry, are survivors, writes Sharon Stephenson

Photos of the Zambesi show - which brought some much needed theatrics to the first day of last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Alexandra Owen show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Annah Stretton show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Basquesse show on day one of NZ Fashion Week 2009.

Photos from the Juliette Hogan show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Photos from the Twenty-seven names show at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

Designs by Sable & Minx on the runway at last year's NZ Fashion Week.

View the first photos from Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2009, courtesy of the Cybele collection.

It's Fashion Week again, replete with celebrities, wannabes and, of course, the frocks...