新西兰英语 817 New Zealand Fashion Week

 　　New Zealand Fashion Week starts today at Auckland’s Viaduct Events centre. This is New Zealand’s biggest fashion event. It attracts international designers and buyers. All New Zealand’s well known designers are showing their best fashion designs.

　　The first three days are for trade buyers, New Zealand and international buyers for shops. Then on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it is open to the public. There are fashion shows with models displaying the latest fashions on the catwalk. One special event is a Gay¹ Wedding display with matching bridal dresses for a same-sex wedding. Also Trelise Cooper again has a show of her adult and children’s clothes, using celebrities² as models. Trelise is one of New Zealand’s most successful fashion designers.

　　Perhaps the biggest attraction for local people is the Designer Garage Show at the weekend – an opportunity to buy men’s and women’s designer wear at bargain prices.

　　To hear about the Dunedin Fashion Show, listen to March 13th 2013.

　　Vocabulary

　　?attract – they want to come

　　?attraction – something that makes people want to come

　　?catwalk – the long stage that models walk along

1 gay   

adj.同性恋的；色彩鲜艳的；n.(男)同性恋者

参考例句：

• I don't know he was a gay person.我不知道他是同性恋者。
• Spring comes round to the earth again and everything looks fresh and gay.春回大地，万象更新。

2 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目