Spotlight on Fashion weekend of delights

  Twelve women primping in Queenstown today, cleaning and preparing the results of three months of hard work show, strutting their stuff on stage at the Queenstown Memorial Hall for the Fashion Challenge.

     Queenstown Winter Festival

The event, part of the Queenstown Winter Festival, was three months in preparation, with the women hit the gym today and following a strict nutrition program before the evening of the event. The challenge mode celebrate the women in the Wakatipu and all they have done.

The activity of the festival is now a welcome break for those who want to offer burnt the night on the weekend to attend, or watch the 23 events have been staged since Friday afternoon.

Festival director Simon Green said he was pleased with this first weekend, despite some minor problems caused by weather in the early hours of Friday.

"[Saturday] we had a few swimmers who shot at the parade, which was a shame. We were all very hopeful that the rain would subside in time, what he did," Mr. Green said.

The rain forced the postponement biking on snow at Coronet Peak and the Birdman competition - both took place yesterday.

"We are all on the right track."

A huge crowd around Lake Wakatipu yesterday afternoon gathered to participate in the action on the coast and water, to make use jets prints, the Splash Money and Undy 500 included.

"Some of the viewers are more involved [yesterday] that they thought, because we took them out of the crowd in the Undy 500 and take the cash to splash.

"It was a nice, big crowd, there [yesterday] was probably the same if not even more than last year, which is not bad if you were open to the mountains."

The organizers of the festival is Skifield by the fact that meteorologist said yesterday that it supported "significant" snowfall on the local fields in the next two days.

Rain closed Coronet Peak on Saturday, but 10cm-15cm snow on Saturday night meant the area could be re-opened yesterday.