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Benson And Hedges Fashion Design Awards
Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards was a New Zealand fashion competition that ran from 1964 to 1998. It was the country's major competitive fashion event during this period. The Awards' open entry format offered an opportunity for new fashion designers and manufacturers to showcase their work on a national platform. Prominent New Zealand fashion designers showcased their works at this event including Annie Bonza, Trish Gregory, Denise L'Estrange-Corbet and Isabelle Harris. History The first awards ceremony was held on 29 July 1964 during Wellington's Majestic Cabaret. It was originally called the Wills Gold Rose Awards but became the Benson and Hedges Fashion Design Awards after a change in sponsor. Jeannie Gandar, president of the New Zealand Modelling Association, organised the first event which was hosted by Graham Kerr. The first two award categories were High Fashion Day wear and Formal Evening wear, but these categories later expanded as the event increased in size. ...
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Annie Bonza
Annie Bonza (née Cole, born 17 March 1940) is a New Zealand fashion designer and a pioneer of boutique fashion. Her signature 'doodle' style consists of braiding, ribbon, beading, embroidery and hand painting clothing with Māori and Polynesia influences. Her work has been exhibited at Te Papa and has won awards at the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards in 1971 and 1989. Early life Annie Bonza was born Annie Cole in Te Kūiti, New Zealand. At age 16, she moved to Auckland where she began a cutting and design apprenticeship at Chadwick and Bray, a large clothing manufacturer. In her time there she was exposed to pre-war patterns of Corneli lace which would go on to inspire her later work. Career Her first design job was at Pour Vous, a company which stocked department stores throughout New Zealand. Her designs gained her a high commendation at the British Golden Shears Awards. In 1964 she moved to Sydney to work at the salon of Robert White. The salon produced afterno ...
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Trish Gregory
Trish Gregory is a New Zealand fashion designer and businesswoman, who achieved widespread recognition as one of New Zealand's leading and innovative designers in a career spanning half a century. Early life Gregory was born Patricia Pearl Lattimer in New Plymouth, New Zealand, and educated at New Plymouth Girls' High School. Career After travelling internationally for several years working as a secretary and architectural draftswoman, Gregory returned to New Zealand joining the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) as a copywriter. In 1968 an NZBC posting took her to Timaru in the South Island and a year later she opened a fashion boutique named "The Fig Leaf" on Caroline Bay Hill. In 1970 Gregory entered the New Zealand Benson and Hedges Fashion Design Awards for the first time, winning the Merit Award in the Evening Wear category. Gregory, displaying "a flair for inventiveness" designed "Splatadashes" and in 1971 was described as having "put Timaru on the map as a ...
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Denise L'Estrange-Corbet
Dame Denise Ann L'Estrange-Corbet (born ) is a New Zealand fashion designer and businesswoman. She founded WORLD, a fashion label, in 1989 with her then husband, Francis Hooper. Personal life L'Estrange-Corbet published her autobiography, ''All That Glitters'', in 2008, in which she discussed her childhood in London and her history of depression. At the age of 3 her mother took her and her sister to England to escape an abusive alcoholic father, and she was raised in London. She appeared in a Ministry of Health (New Zealand), Ministry of Health campaign aimed at reducing the stigma of suffering from depression. L'Estrange-Corbet and Francis Hooper are the parents of gossip columnist Pebbles Hooper. Honours and awards In 1995 WORLD's designs won the Avant Garde category at the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Award, a $5000 prize. In the 2002 Birthday Honours (New Zealand), 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, L'Estrange-Corbet was appointed a New Zealand Order of ...
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Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr (born 22 January 1934) is an English cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show ''The Galloping Gourmet'' from December 30, 1968 to September 14, 1973. Early life Kerr was born in Brondesbury, London. His Scottish parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of his childhood was spent among European chefs. On the pronunciation of his family name, Kerr wrote in ''The Graham Kerr Cookbook'' that "my name is pronounced "care" — not "cur" or "car" as in the case of Bill Kerr and Deborah Kerr. As a youth, he attended Michael Hall School, a Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner education) school situated at Kidbrooke Park in Forest Row, East Sussex. Although he dropped out of school at age 14 and began training in kitchens, he returned years later and attended the independent school Brighton Technical College and another school in Devon. Career Early career Kerr became trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in Forest Row, East Sussex, Englan ...
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Maysie Bestall-Cohen
Maysie Bestall-Cohen (born 1945) is a New Zealand retired model and modelling agent and the former organiser and presenter of the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards. Early life Bestall-Cohen grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where her father was a children’s clothing manufacturer. When she was 16, the family moved to New Zealand and settled in Auckland. She attended secretarial college there, and was invited to join a modelling agency by two women she met a party, Winsome Goudie and Mary Bourne. Career Bestall-Cohen's early modelling career included work for the New Zealand Wool Board, Rose Coats, Catalina swimwear and she appeared on the covers of ''Eve, Thursday'' and ''New Zealand Woman’s Weekly'' magazines as well as in the ''Auckland Star'' and the '' New Zealand Herald'' newspapers''.'' She also worked part time in reception and typing positions, such as for photographer Clifton Firth, fashion company Voyageur International and the ANZ Bank. In 1968 Bestall-Cohen and he ...
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Tobacco Sponsor
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New Zealand Fashion Museum
The New Zealand Fashion Museum is a virtual fashion museum in New Zealand established in 2010. It was the brainchild of fashion designer and fashion historian Doris de Pont. Established as a charitable trust in January 2010, the museum holds "pop-up" exhibitions around New Zealand and runs as an online museum. It draws from public and private collections to pull together its exhibitions, featuring designers such as Liz Findlay and Margi Robertson. The museum's first pop-up exhibition, ''Looking Terrific – the Story of El Jay'', was curated by Doris de Pont. It showcased over 50 vintage garments by New Zealand fashion industry leader Gus Fisher and his label El Jay. The Auckland exhibition was held at the Gus Fisher Gallery. The Wellington season was hosted by Kirkcaldie and Stains, which welcomed the clothes back into its store as stockists of El Jay during its 50-year history. In 2018, the museum curated and presented a century of summer fashion. In 2019, the museum cura ...
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List Of Fashion Awards
This list of fashion awards is an index to articles on notable awards given for fashion. It is organized by the country of the sponsoring organization, but entries are not always limited to that country. List See also *Lists of awards *List of design awards References

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Fashion Awards
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is ''trending''. Everything that is considered ''fashion'' is available and popularized by the fashion system (industry and media). Given the rise in mass production of commodities and clothing at lower prices and global reach, sustainability has become an urgent issue among politicians, brands, and consumers. Definitions The French word , meaning "fashion", dates as far back as 1482, while the English word denoting something "in style" dates only to the 16th century. Other words exist related to concepts of style and appeal that precede ''mode''. In the 12th and 13th century Old French the concept of elegance begins to appear in the context of aristocratic preferences to enhance beauty and display refinement, an ...
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New Zealand Fashion
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New Zealand Awards
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New Zealand Television Specials
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