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Speaker 1: Good news for New Zealand and New Zealand Fashion Week

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Speaker 1: is back. Canceled of course last year because of economic uncertainty.

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Speaker 1: They having day three year deal with guild Trap as

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Speaker 1: in the car People. Parrazali is New Zealand Fashion Week's

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Speaker 1: owner and he's back with us.

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Speaker 2: For is morning, Good morning, Mike, How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Congratulations on putting this thing together given last year,

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Speaker 1: how shaky was it?

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Speaker 2: It was very shaky, But I took your words as

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Speaker 2: inspiration of whether we'll return back this year, and we

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Speaker 2: have and we are very proud of having Giltrap as

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Speaker 2: our presenting partner and for its continued support over the

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Speaker 2: next three years.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. What level of enthusiasm is there within the fashion industry?

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Speaker 1: Are you back the way you were before? Is it

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Speaker 1: scale down? What's it looked like?

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Speaker 2: Exponential is the word I'll use. We have a very packed,

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Speaker 2: full schedule for five days. You will see emerging designs,

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Speaker 2: new designers, designers that have probably not shown for fifteen

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Speaker 2: years returning back to the runway and the event. And

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Speaker 2: the credit goes out to Liam and Dan and Murray

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Speaker 2: and their whole team for pulling what I would call

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Speaker 2: is going to be an amazing show this year.

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Speaker 1: Who do you aim it at? Is it a public thing?

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Speaker 1: Is it an industry thing? Is it both?

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Speaker 2: You know what, it's a celebration of fashion, fashion industry

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand and it's actually this year is going

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Speaker 2: to be a bit of a hybrid. There is a

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Speaker 2: consumer facing element driving traffic to the designer's stores and

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Speaker 2: the online platforms, and a trade element to it, showcasing

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Speaker 2: the New Zealand brands to delegates that will be traveling

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Speaker 2: from abroad that'll be able to scale their businesses and

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Speaker 2: take their products outside New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm super excited for you. Well well done for

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Speaker 1: hanging in there, and they're well done the guild traps

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Speaker 1: for putting it together and helping out. And so New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Fashion Weeks lives for at least another three years. Firozali,

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Speaker 1: who is the owner of New Zealand Fashion Weekend.

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