The Dress Circle
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When:
| Sat 14 May ’11, 2:30pm–3:30pm |
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Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Festival Club: $16.00
- Earlybird: $20.00
- Standard: $25.00
- Student: $12.50
- Booking fees may apply
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Contrary to popular opinion, New Zealand fashion didn't begin in the late 1990s when four designers created a stir with their stylish dark garments on the London catwalks. Its history is, in fact, a long and rich one, and no one tells it better than Lucy Hammonds, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault, who spent over three years tracking down our overlooked and in some cases entirely forgotten fashion pioneers and heroes, uncovering a treasure-trove of fabulous frocks, coats, ballgowns and bijou pieces along the way. What they found contradicts the notion that we've always been a nation of bad dressers.
See the evidence in an illustrated session inspired by The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940. Chair: Peter Wells.
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