Sonia Sly and fashion blogger Vlad Tichen dissect the good, the bad and the "mind -blowing" from day two of NZ Fashion Week.

RNZ's Sonia Sly and fashion blogger Vlad Tichen dissect the good, the bad and the "mind-blowing" from day two - low lapels, hits and misses on the runway and the one essential item that you might be carrying in the seasons to come... hint, it's not a bag!

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Sonia Sly and Simply You editor Naomi Larkin discovers the secrets to blending music with storytelling on the runway and finds out why coats made of carpet may be your ticket to AW17 style.

What do music and fashion have in common?

Sonia Sly discovers the secrets to blending music with storytelling on the runway and ponders why coats made of carpet may be the ticket to AW17 style, with Naomi Larkin from Simply You magazine.

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Day Four was all about the group shows, with a side of racy swimwear... Sonia Sly catches up with Assia Benmedjdoub, editor of Australian publication, Ragtrader.

Day Four at New Zealand Fashion Week was all about the group shows, with collections from fashion graduates around the country followed by the highly anticipated Miromoda Indigenous Maori Fashion Apparel Board (IMFAB) presentation.

Sonia Sly catches up with Assia Benmedjdoub, editor of Australian publication Ragtrader to talk fashion horror stories, bare flesh, burkinis and dealing with runway fatigue...

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What lies behind the facade of Instagram and outfit shots? Fashion blogger Alison Gordan chats about her website Modesto and keeping up appearances while being a country girl at heart.

What lies behind the facade of Instagram and outfit shots?

Fashion blogger Alison Gordan chats with Sonia Sly about her website Modesto and keeping up appearances while being a country girl at heart.

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Sonia Sly meets two New Zealand models to talk about life on and off the runway.

Sudanese Kiwi model Mary Maguet says she likes to 'werk it' like Beyoncé on the catwalk, while Malaysian-Chinese Jin Ng says he's more of an ethereal glider. Both models walked this year at New Zealand Fashion Week and Sonia Sly tracked them down to chat about cultural diversity in the fashion industry and why beauty is only skin deep.

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Pearly Wong is a fashion designer based between Malaysia and Berlin. She talks to Sonia Sly about catering to an international market place and the realities of the industry for Malaysian designers.

Pearly Wong studied in New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology, she's a regular on the Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week scene and she's based between Malaysia and Berlin. This year she also had the chance to bring her collection to New Zealand Fashion Week as part of the Malaysian Fashion Initiative.

Pearly talks to Sonia Sly about her minimalist aesthetic, growing up in the rag trade and designing for an international marketplace.

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Auckland-based designer James Dobson talks about life before the internet, meeting the needs of a clientele that range from 15-60, and why he has to remind himself that there is more to life than fashion.

James Dobson - the founder and designer of New Zealand label Jimmy D - isn't afraid of pushing creative boundaries.

He chats candidly with Sonia Sly at his K Road home (which is above his workroom) about approaching design with a sense of humour, working with stylist King Kang Chen, life before the internet and being at home in the fashion industry.

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Courtney Sanders is a Melbourne-based Kiwi and co-founder of Well Made Clothes. She talks to Sonia Sly about setting up an online ethical clothing business and a movement towards slow fashion.

Getting dressed isn't quite what it used to be. With the rise of mass-produced, cheaply made garments, we have more choice than ever. But although fashion can be fun and frivolous - even throw-away - what we choose to wear can now say as much about our values, as it does our sense of style.

The same can be said for the designers who are keen to reassure their customers that 'no-one was harmed in the making' of this garment.

"People who are interested in where the fashion industry is going are actively trying to buy less."

Courtney Sanders, Co-founder of ethical online store Well Made Clothes started her business with Kelly Elkin, and says she wants to provide her customers with the option to make conscientious decisions based on their values.

The store works with a stable of around 45 independent designers who must meet at least one of their 8 core values: handcrafted, transparent, sustainable, local, fair, minimal waste, vegan and gender equality.

And while the market is competitive, Courtney says that over recent years an increasing demand for transparency from consumers is helping to keep a steady flow for the demand and supply of clothing that has been ethically produced - the only hindrance in the past, is the notion that sustainable clothing lacks attention to detail.

"There are lots of people making ethical clothing, but has a really bad rap for being badly designed. So it was really important to us that Well Made Clothes was design-led, because if something is poorly designed then you're not going to wear it, which is , and that's also bad for the environment."

So why require designers to meet only one of those eight values? While many young designers are entering the industry with either a sustainable or ethical focus, finding a process that is entirely responsible is tricky even for established brands.

"Sometimes part of their range will meet our values and part of it won't, so we'll stock the part of the range that does."

Before the inception of Well Made Clothes Courtney says that a curated online store like theirs didn't exist in either New Zealand or Australia. The pair were passionate about a multi-brand site with an ethical focus and applied for a grant from The Walkley Foundation in partnership with Google - winning it last year enabled them to start their business and invest in industry-leading technology. The store doesn't buy products wholesale, but instead, reflects the real-time stock of their designers…

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