iD Dunedin Fashion Week is an annual festival of fashion held in the

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. The festival has been held regularly since 1999, and is held in the southern autumn in March or April.

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iD Dunedin is run by a not-for-profit charitable organisation, founded in 2000, in cooperation with

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. Originally intended to focus on local fashion, it has since grown to include designers and designs from around the world. International guest designers have appeared during fashion week since 2010, with the first being British designer

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. Other international guests have included

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and Stephen Jones.Muir, V.,
iD Dunedin Fashion Week
" New Zealand Fashion Museum, February 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2023. Two major events are held during the week, the iD International Emerging Designer Awards and iD Dunedin Fashion Show. The latter was held from 2000 to 2017 at the Dunedin Railway Station, using the stations main platform as a

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, making it — at — one of the world's longest fashion catwalks. The fashion show returned to the Dunedin Railway Station from 2023.Official website
" Retrieved 9 July 2023. The week has developed to include various other events including exhibitions and lectures. The 2020 fashion awards were held online, due to the

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. No fashion week was held in either 2021 or 2022, for the same reason.

Winners

iD International Emerging Designer Award

*2009:

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(Israel) *2010: Igor Galas (Croatia) *2011: Kate Bolzonello (Australia) *2012: Carolina Barua (Australia) *2013:

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(New Zealand) *2014: Mahshid Mahdian (Italy) *2015: Steve Hall (New Zealand) *2016:

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(Australia) *2017: Nehma Vitols (Australia) *2018:

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(Croatia) *2019: Rebecca Carrington (England) *2020:

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(Sweden) *2021–22: no award *2023: Zong-Lin Liang (Taiwan)Beckett, T.,
Unflinching sustainability and positivity key to winning collections at iD Dunedin Fashion Show
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'', 1 April 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

References

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Description

Winners

iD International Emerging Designer Award

See also

References