Hupfeld Hoerder who won three awards at the 2016 Fiji Fashion Week is currently working on the national costume for Fiji’s representative to the Miss World pageant, Pooja Priyanka.

Hoerder who is also an academic at the University of the South Pacific has been designing for the last 25 years.

Hoerder says he always wanted to become an architect when he was in school however he took up designing.