VIP hosting opportunities currently available:

1. A first class VIP dining table, meal and show experience to take place on the main floor of the Vector Arena.
   Prices start from NZD $3,500 per table of 10 guests.
   
   
2. A corporate VIP experience to take place in the foyers of the Vector Arena.
   Custom hosting packages can be designed with prices starting from NZD $65.00 per guest.

Style Pasifika will host an exclusive pre-show corporate and VIP Pasifika cuisine event. The best of New Zealand and the Pacific’s culinary products will be prepared into a sumptuous dining experience by renowned chefs to be accompanied by a selection of our regions best wines and beer.
Style Pasifika traditionally will host members of the New Zealand government, corporate and community leaders as well as, during the week of the Rugby World Cup 2011 Final, invite members of International Rugby Unions, distinguished international guests and world media. The Style Pasifika spectacular will crown the evening making it a uniquely prestigious New Zealand experience befitting the week of the Rugby World Cup 2011 Final, New Zealand.
Style Pasifika’s exclusive corporate event provides an opportunity for major organisations to take part in what will be one of the major events to take place during Rugby World Cup 2011. It has been strategically scheduled during the week to draw maximum national and international recognition as a truly iconic New Zealand event.

iD Dunedin Crowns Emerging Designer Winner

What’s most impressive about this collection is that Fairgray was able to establish a balance between dipping into the surrealist tendencies of Dali himself yet has also created a collection which is as aesthetically pleasing to the eye as it is to the mind. Fairgray’s well draped dresses and bodices with oh so hot prism shoulders still make for a very marketable and well integrated collection.



Former Otago polytechnic student Laura Marshall explored the fine line between feminine and masculine with her menswear collection “Men in Men’s Clothing”. Marshall flipped the trend of emulating men’s fashion into womenswear (which we are seeing more and more of) and decided to take inspiration from recent women’s wear collections and Victorian menswear to form her most amazing and intricate collection.

Bay Fashion Students Dominate at Westfield Style Pasifika Awards

It comes as no surprise that each year without fail, the Bay of Plenty Polytech boasts at least one finalist in a section of the Westfield Style Pasifika awards. The past seven years have seen multiple wins by fashion students in the Evening Wear and Asia Pacific sections and in 2007 tutors Debra Laraman and Donna Dinsdale took out the Supreme Award.

This year is no different, as we get word that yet again the Bay of Plenty Polytech has at least half a dozen entries in the finals. It is quite a feat for a single fashion educator to pull together such a high count of finalists in the one competition. It is also quite awe inspiring. One has to wonder if there is a hidden secret to this long line of successes..and perhaps there is?

We hope to catch up with the talented students and faculty at the “BOP Poly” and to discover what it is that makes this group tick. But in the meantime congratulations to all of the fashion students and tutors who have worked hard and made it in to the Westfield Style Pasifika Finals this year. Awesome effort and we wish you well on September the 4th.