Supermodel Shanina Shaik coming to Sydney to walk in Oscar de la Renta show

SUPERMODEL Shanina Shaik is arriving in Sydney ‘to walk’ exclusively for the final show at fashion week on Friday night.

Shanina Shaik will bring some star power to the Oscar de la Renta show.

AS the word supermodel is at times, somewhat overused, a legitimate one is landing in Sydney tomorrow.

Shanina Shaik is arriving in Sydney to walk exclusively for the final show at fashion week on Friday night.

American fashion label, Oscar de la Renta, is an iconic name and was the perfect choice for Mercedes Australian Fashion Week organisers, IMG to close the week.

Shanina Shaik attends the Balmain and Olivier Rousteing after the Met Gala Celebration at The Gilded Lily on May 2, 2016 in New York City.

In order to make Australian fashion week a much more viable international showcase of resort fashion collections, the de la Renta Choice will certainly create those with in the global fashion industry and that his wife Australian fashion week is trying to achieve.

While industry sources tell news.com.au the $400k appearance price tag — the amount allegedly paid to Bella Hadid who walked for Aussie label Misha Collection yesterday — has been wildly exaggerated, Shanina, at 25, certainly won’t be in that pay-for-prance league.

Shanina has become an international star in the modelling world particularly after being part of the annual mega Victoria’s Secret show as well as being the face of Kookai and the likes of Bonds and Bloomingdales.

Shanina Shaik arrives at a party in California.

Aussie-born Shanina is en route to Sydney now and is being brought out by Etihad Airways, which has just signed as the global airline partner for fashion weeks around the world.

The grand Oscar de la Renta show is being presented by Etihad Airways and supported by Destination NSW while VIP guests will be ferried to a grand after-party at Sydney Opera House on Friday night.

Certainly a spectacular way to end what will have been a crazy week of primping, posing and doing business also top of the priority list.

** UPDATE **

Speaking of late Aussie fashion week arrivals another model, Winnie Harlow is arriving in Sydney for Dan Single and Bambi Northwood Blyth’s P.Jamé show on Wednesday night in The Boudoir in The Ivy.

Winnie Harlow. Picture: Daemian Smith & Christine Suarez

Winnie Harlow is a Canadian fashion model, spokesperson and activist.

Harlow is known for her prominent form of the skin conditions vitiligo, using her career as a platform to spread messages of body positivity as well as raising awareness about vitiligo and equality.