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Speaker 1: The World of Wearable Arts underwe and Wellington. I reckon

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Speaker 1: about sixty thousand going to hit the capital over the

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Speaker 1: next fortnite. Chief Executive Meg Williams with US Meg Morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning. I haven't been for a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Is it's still as fantastic as it always was?

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Speaker 2: Well, I would like to say that it's even best

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Speaker 2: there because every year we set ourselves a challenge to

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Speaker 2: raise the bar. Yeah, we've got a fantastic show this

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Speaker 2: year and we had an amazing preview run last night,

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Speaker 2: so i'd encourage you to come along.

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Speaker 1: Okay, my technical guy Glean a little bit upset. He said,

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Speaker 1: not enough local involvement versus international. Is international crowding out

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Speaker 1: the local?

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Speaker 2: I don't believe so at all. We've got a really

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Speaker 2: strong local involvement in terms of New Zealand designers in

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Speaker 2: the competition, a really good mix, and I think, you

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Speaker 2: know whow I've always had that international dimension actually from

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Speaker 2: very early on in the early years, we had designers

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Speaker 2: visit US. Many have come over for Designer Day and

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Speaker 2: for the show, and our New Zealand designers love meeting

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Speaker 2: out international designers and it's all part of I think

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Speaker 2: that exchange happens when Credive people come together. In terms

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Speaker 2: of the show, We've got an amazing New Zealand the

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Speaker 2: Credive team. Our show director Malia Johnson is one of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand's best artists. So I think it's a perfect balance.

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Speaker 1: Good is it in good heart? Not your specific event,

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Speaker 1: but the people who contribute to it. In other words,

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Speaker 1: you know, is the creativity still alive? Are the new

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Speaker 1: young people coming in looking to make great names for

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Speaker 1: themselves on the international stages? All of that vibrant absolutely so.

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Speaker 2: First and foremost so, our executive creative director Brian Burke

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Speaker 2: is based in Las Vegas, so I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you saw the Formula one opening ceremony in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: so that gives you a sense of the kind of

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Speaker 2: project that Brian's normally working on. So he is working

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Speaker 2: along with Malia to make sure that the show that

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Speaker 2: we bring here in New Zealand is really well classed.

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Speaker 2: And alongside that we have an amazing cost of many

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Speaker 2: young practitioners. As you say, our headline talent this year

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Speaker 2: to young incredible New Zealand artists sean to Pone Nikita.

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Speaker 2: So it's not an incredibly vibrant team. I'm very proud

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Speaker 2: to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, make you enjoy it, appreciate it very much,

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Speaker 1: make Williams out of the world of wearable arts. And

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Speaker 1: between that and the rugby, Wellington's going to go off.

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