catwalk kiss ;o)

insomniax · 10-19-2005, 08:22 AM

Like the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, two lingerie clad female models have locked lips on the catwalk at Air New Zealand Fashion Week.

Though not Madonna and Britney, it still turned heads at last night's Trelise Cooper show.

Cooper, who launched her first lingerie collection in May at Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, sent out an extensive and provocative collection of sexy lingerie, pjs and luxury dressing gowns.

The collection went from vintage inspired lace to cheeky frills on buttocks to sexy black suspender belts with the words "pret a couture".

Cooper said the models improvised the catwalk kiss.

"The thing about lingerie is there is a lot of it out there for sale so I wanted it to stand out and be sexy and make women feel playful," she said.

"I told the models to imagine themselves being found in the kitchen dressed like that."

Also taking a different approach yesterday was men's and womenswear knitwear label Insidious Fix who used a convoy of 30 Mini Coopers to ferry 60 VIP guests from the Hilton Hotel to a secret location, via a tour of One Tree Hill, for the presentation of its winter 2006 collection Progression Addiction.

The cars were driven on to the runway inside the Auckland Showgrounds.

The show was backed up with an audio-visual presentation by Wellington film and multi-media company Nektar.

Models strutted their stuff to the music of Wellington band Fat Freddy's Drop.

The show also marked Insidious Fix's 10th birthday.

The clothing featured sexy figure-hugging fine-knit frocks belted at the waist, bold stripes, plunging necklines, and 70s inspired jumpsuits for women, and slim-fit cardies and hooded jumpers for men.

Wellington designers Aimee McFarlane, Helene Morris and Steve Ferguson of label Lonely Hearts Club and Auckland-based Wellington designer Michael Pattison raised the bar of the Verge Breakthrough Designers collection.

Lonely Hearts Club incapsulated street chic with its winter collection "Washed Up" that featured oversized hoodies worn as dresses, bubble skirts, and cartoonish prints of greasy fish and chip paper printed by Wellington company Sam Design and Print.

Michael Pattison, 24, made New Zealand Fashion Week history by becoming the first designer to model his own clothes on the catwalk.