Tipped as the "one to watch", Rotorua designer Adrienne Whitewood admits she's a bit nervous ahead of New Zealand Fashion Week.
Fashion Week starts in Auckland on Monday, with Ms Whitewood's pig leather inspired collection forms part of the Miromoda show on Friday, after she won the supreme award at this year's Miromoda Maori Fashion Awards.
Showing in the same show will be Rotorua's Leanne Mulcahy and Leilani Rickard, whose Weather the Storm rainwear collection took out the Miromoda Avant Garde category.
If you think the world of fashion is all about glamour, think again - Ms Whitewood said backstage before a fashion show is chaos. "It's just boom, boom, boom," she said.
Models' body shapes may have changed since their fittings meaning last minute alterations, while some models just don't show up at all. Fancy hairdos have to be maneuvered into the clothes and make-up smears cleaned off garments, she said.