iD Dunedin FASHION
ABOUT
The iD Dunedin Fashion Week has moved to a biennial format.
The next hallmark iD Dunedin Fashion Show at the Dunedin Railway Station will take place on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 April 2025.
The iD International Emerging Designer Awards competition will also become a biennial event. We look forward to welcoming entries to our 2025 competition later in 2024.
We are currently working on plans for a smaller event in 2024 with a sustainability focus. We will share more details on this soon.
iD Dunedin is supported by the city, community and commercial partners, run by a management team and governed by iD Dunedin Fashion Inc – a charitable organisation registered under the Charities Commission. Funds raised by the event are carried on to help fund future years events.
THE TEAM BEHIND iD DUNEDIN FASHION WEEK
DR MARGO BARTON, ID board co-CHAIR and creative director
Dr Margo Barton is a Professor in Fashion at the School of Design, Otago Polytechnic. Margo teaches in the fields of fashion design, fashion communication, and millinery, and has a PhD in Fashion from RMIT University, Melbourne. Margo leads the team behind the iD International Emerging Designer Awards.
TANYA CARLSON, ID BOARD MEMBER
Long-standing Board Member Tanya Carlson has been the Designer and Director of her eponymous women's fashion label and boutique stores for over 20 years. Tanya acts as adjudicator on the judging panel of the iD International Emerging Designer Awards and is the Auckland representative for the event.
DR JANE MALTHUS, ID BOARD MEMBER
Dr Jane Malthus is a dress historian, honorary curator of the dress collection at Otago Museum, Patron and steering committee member of Eden Hore Central Otago and former fashion and clothing and textile sciences educator. A keen supporter of iD, she co-curated Fashion Forward: Disruption through Design (Otago Museum 2021) which featured past finalists of the iD International Emerging Designer Awards.
CHARLOTTE CARR, ID board MEMBER
Dunedin-based lawyer and Fashion Design graduate Charlotte Carr brings a wealth of fashion knowledge (from design to retail) alongside a passion for the iD event, having attended the Fashion Week from a young age. She is currently based at Solomons Barristers and Solicitors.
sally Mcmillan, id board co-chair
Sally McMillan is the Principal of McMillan&Co. Lawyers, a boutique Dunedin firm specialising in private client law. She is also a Mediator, a member of the Institute of Directors and the Honorary Solicitor for Graduate Women NZ. She has previous involvement in the conception and realisation of Dunedin events, including with Toitu. Sally’s personal legal practise revolves around helping clients through crises. She is an ‘ideas person’ who is known for her pragmatism, her collaboration, her candour, and her no nonsense, roll your sleeves up, don’t-leave-til-tomorrow-what-you-can-get-stuck-into-today, approach. She brings that same approach, as well as her directorship and management skills, to the iD Board.
tracy kennedy, ID BOARD MEMBER
Tracy Kennedy is currently a Principal Lecturer with The School of Design (Fashion). Tracy has a particular interest in sustainable models and social enterprise within the fashion industry and the implications for stakeholders and educators. Holding an MVA Textiles, Tracy enjoys the challenges of creating textiles that inspire, with an aim of reducing the impact on the environment.
tara viggo, ID BOARD MEMBER
Tara Viggo is the founder of Paper Theory Patterns and was a finalist of the inaugural iD International Emerging Designer Awards in 2005. Tara was born in the Cook Islands and grew up in Dunedin. She spent 17 years working in London as a professional pattern cutter, right across the fashion industry, from high street stalwarts to luxury catwalk brands, giving her insight into the darker side of commercial fashion which resulted in her focus in sustainable design.