Students wowed a capacity crowd with their kaleidoscopic garment designs in what has been billed as Hawke's Bay's "major fashion event of the year".
Staged in EIT's Trades Building, the iS3 Fashion Show was an end-of-year extravaganza featuring the work of ideaschool's fashion apparel students.
For first-year students, it was an opportunity to once again showcase garments which had made a strong debut a week earlier at Cult Couture in Auckland.
All the entries had been accepted for this centrepiece event of the Southside Arts Festival. Nikki Long's Uma outfit, comprising a "skeleton" vest worn over a long gown, and Hayley Fulton's hunt-inspired red riding jacket and breeches were featured in television news coverage.
The brief for first-year students working up design concepts was to draw inspiration from their cultural backgrounds.