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Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards 1978
Television (Full Length) – 1978
“As an Oscar is to actors, a Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Award was to aspiring New Zealand fashion designers.” The B&H Awards were the big fashion event of the year for three decades from 1964. This 1978 telecast is presented from Wellington’s Town Hall by John Hayden, and longtime B&H organiser Josephine Brody. The theme is ‘fantasy’, but the fabric du jour is wool — befitting an economy living off the sheep’s back — with design entries coming in from Kaitoke to Marton and a procession of homespuns and knitwear paraded before the visiting Parisian judge.
Pure fantasy is always with us in fashion, as a way of bringing dreams alive.– Presenter Josephine Brody
Key Cast & Crew
Brian Hands
Josephine Brody
John Hayden
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