The Fashion Week ooops file

The ears of the fashionable bunch dutifully listening to speeches during the announcement of the designer line-up for this year's Air New Zealand-sponsored Fashion Week pricked up at one stage. Managing director Pieter Stewart chose the moment to declassify some of the most amusing moments from the four Fashion Weeks' past. Here are the edited highlights.

"The first incident became the catalyst for our rigorous backstage pass policy.

"Some bright spark gave their backstage ticket to a chap who lived under a bench near Aotea Square. He was found chasing half-naked models behind the catwalk.

"Then in 2002 there was the woman who told a man in the bar at the Town Hall that she had a gun. He finally managed to get the barman to call the police, who arrived to find she had gone - presumably into the Trelise Cooper show.

"Obviously she was happy with what she saw as she did not make her presence felt and was never identified.

"One of the people who was aware of the fuss was Lucy Lawless who was heard to ask if it was someone else's stalker or hers?

"Our guests are usually very well-behaved, although there was the very petite international VIP who managed to smash a glass shower door on her first night in New Zealand, and the international star who just had to have room service fries before heading down to not eat at the gala dinner.

"And then there was the delegate who was so frustrated with his cellphone that he threw it off Princes Wharf."