1998 Montana New Zealand Wearable Art Awards

Tonight you're gonna see some of the most outrageous forms of body adornment from anywhere in the world!

– Presenter Petra Bagust introducing the awards, part one

The children's sections is one of the most gorgeous sections of the wearable arts!

– Presenter Petra Bagust, part two

Normally I'm a freeze manager for Pak N Save.

– A male model describing his day job, part one

It involved, for myself, catching and skinning and possums, which is something I'd never done before. These are actually possums tails, they've been turned inside out and tanned and stuffed with their own fur...

– Designer Debra Price describing her creation 'The Night Visit', part one

... what was attractive to us was the many layers of materials the oysters build to make it's shell, and we were relating it to the many layers of consciousness of the human psyche.

– Designer D. de Borrekens descrbing her co-creation Rock Me Aphrodite, part three