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1998 Montana New Zealand Wearable Art Awards

Television (Full Length) – 1998

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

– Co-presenter Petra Bagust introduces the awards, part one

Normally I'm a freeze manager for PAK'nSAVE.

– A male model describes his day job, in part one

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

– Designer Debra Price describes her creation The Night Visit, in part one

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

– Co-presenter Petra Bagust, in part two

...what attracted us was the many layers of materials that the oyster builds to make it's shell, and we were relating it to the many layers of consciousness of the human psyche.

– Designer Dominique de Borrekens describing her and Mandy Preston's winning creation Rock Me Aphrodite, in part three