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If you like your fashion ethical, vintage, local, international, from a bargain bin, hand-made or exquisitely one-off, yet with a distinctive Dunedin flavour, make your way calmly ladies and gentlemen, to the streets of Dunedin. The continuing success of New Zealand’s only in-season fashion show open to the public, the iD Dunedin Fashion Week, is a complete justification for Dunedin’s significant place in the world of fashion and sets the scene for Dunedin as a most extraordinary shopping destination
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From great beach breaks close the city centre, to long fun point breaks on the North Coast, to numerous hidden reefs breaks, Dunedin has something for everyone! Geographically Dunedin is wide open to South swells ranging consistently from 1 m-3m, but 4m to 6m-plus waves are a regular occurrence in the Winter months. A combination of East and North swells from tropical cyclones offer a similar wave quality around Dunedin's north coast, encompassing over 10 breaks from Aramoana Beach, Murdering Bay through to little fishing village of Karitane. You can expect New Zealand’s most consistent surf break in St Clair Beach as there is nothing between its white sands and the Antarctic. If you’re not a surfer, you can grab a drink at the cafe line promenade to watch all the action.
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Dunedin’s much-envied music scene is in fine form, with new live-act venues popping up, The National and The Attic, as well as die-hard Dunedin icons, The Chicks Hotel in Port Chalmers still doing their thing. The Octagon is host to many bars and clubs, with all sorts of hidden treasures down alley ways like Copa cranking out the beats or Pequeno, for a European style cocktail. Again, the student community, all 25,000 of them, creates reasons to party all year long.
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Dunedin’s event-rich calendar supports the young, fit, fashion-focused, fun-seeking traveller:
Fringe Festival February
The event attracts artists from throughout New Zealand and overseas bringing innovative contemporary art to a wider audience and to support the work of emerging artists. This year an artist ate her way out of a cube made of toffee!
Orientation Week
This year gigs were held in the outstanding, new Forsyth Barr Stadium as well as on campus; week full of partying with a massive line up of live acts. A Re-Orientation programme also takes place through the year, with Lady Hawke playing this July.
iD Dunedin Fashion Week
A week of remarkable fashion events, the entire city takes on the fashion mantle and attends public lectures from visiting international fashion designers, the famed Emerging Designer Awards, and the grand finale at the historic Dunedin Railway Station, iD Fashion Show showcasing the talents of our local fashion designers on one of the longest catwalks in the world.
Super 15 Matches
The instigation of the Zoo at Forsyth Barr Stadium has added full on party vibe to the experience of attending Super 15 Rugby games held there! All eyes are on the antics in the Zoo, which is for 18+ Highlanders fans who want to have some ‘fun at the footy’. The Zoo Keeper will keep the beats rolling in his DJ box. You will find him wearing his beige safari suit, ready to tame the lions, monkeys and girls in bikinis.
