Gloss was a popular Kiwi television drama series made by TVNZ that screened from 1987 - 1990. Gloss combined a wealthy family, the Redferns, with a lucrative high-fashion magazine business. Yuppies, shoulder-pads and methode champenoise abound in this cult "glitter-soap". New Zealanders wanted to see themselves as less bottom of the world and more "here we come and we are sailing" (as the infamous Cup campaign song warbled) and Gloss was just what the era demanded.
Included in the Content Director's Top 10 collection by Irene Gardiner and part of the Labour Day Collection - October 2009.
"If you've got it, flaunt it; if you haven't, get it."
This was TV reviewer Diana Wichtel's take on the ethos behind the television series Gloss.
Gloss was initiated in 1985 against the backdrop of a bull market and ...
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