Wella Fashion Report

School uniforms: All shapeless sacks designed to make growing girls feel as unattractive as possible? Not if you're fortunate enough to have your uniform designed by Barbara Lee. 

– Presenter Sonia Gray on the St. Margaret's school uniform, Spring 1998

The press dub the New Zealand designers darker and more intellectual than their Australian counterparts. Like our films apparently; Once Were Warriors versus Priscilla Queen of the Desert. 

– Presenter Craig Parker on the reaction to NZ fashion in Australia, Spring 1998

It is difficult, because some days when you're wrapped up in layers, and you're trying to think about if it's ever going to be warm again.

– Designer Tania Carlson on designing clothes for summer during the Dunedin winter, Summer 1998

I think skatewear is more unisex than some other looks, but it's also more about looking cool or looking hardcore than about looking sexy, which is kind of fresh for girls clothing at the moment. 

– Zeal clothing designer Cherie Patton on skatewear as a fashion trend, Summer 1998

I'm sure with all the plastic surgery around and the way that women are indulging in it that we won't need bras for support but we'll still need them to decorate our bodies. 

– The Silk Drawer's Donna Davidson on the future of lingerie design, Autumn 1999

We design the Sabatini brand as a cosmopolitan look. We're not interested in what we've just made, we're just looking straight into the future.

– Sabatini's Tony Milch on the future of the brand, Autumn 1999

So many girls, I feel, wear the wrong gowns in the wrong situations, where garden weddings with big trains that should be in cathedrals, end up being laughable because they're outside in the garden where they could have a beautiful romantic garden gown. So it's very important to get the theme of the wedding through.

– Wedding dress designer Kevin Berkahn, Winter 1999

It's one of fashion designers' greatest challenges: How do you design next summer's gauzy little slip dress when all you can think about is bundling up in a big sloppy jersey in front of a fire?

– Presenter Sonia Gray on designing fashion seasonally, Summer 1998