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Meg Williams: World of Wearable Arts CEO on the show opening in Wellington · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The World of Rebel Arts kicks off in Wellington today.
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  Speaker 1: You can expect everything from dog bowl dresses to road
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  Speaker 1: cone gowns. Plenty of road cones around to use. I
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  Speaker 1: suppose big crowds made a big boost for the capitol
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  Speaker 1: and boy do they need it. Meg Williams as the
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  Speaker 1: World of Wearable Arts CEO with me this morning. Meg,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning. Good to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: What is the road cone gown?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was actually a supreme winner from last year,
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  Speaker 2: which was actually inspired by our designers visit to New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand a number of years ago after the Chiquarder earthquakes actually,
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  Speaker 2: and she was many of our designers come over for
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  Speaker 2: the show and then afterwards they take a trip around
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand and on that trip she was really inspired
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  Speaker 2: by the resilience of the country and how everyone had
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  Speaker 2: pulled together after that, and so that was actually the
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  Speaker 2: inspiration for that piece. It's a spectacular piece and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so it just so happened that it came into
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  Speaker 2: the competition last year.
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  Speaker 1: Meghap.
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  Speaker 2: It's an example of the kind of invention and imagination
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  Speaker 2: that that designers put to put to the.
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  Speaker 1: Task for whom how many of you. Are you expecting today, Meg.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we opened this week. We have pull on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: so we had our first dress rehearsal last night, and
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  Speaker 2: across the season we expect around sixty thousand and many
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  Speaker 2: of those are from out of the region, so we
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  Speaker 2: have about seventy percent from outside of the Wellington region.
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  Speaker 1: And what we had Roadeconds you said was the Supreme Winner.
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  Speaker 1: What are we expecting this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I can tell you a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: the show. The show is called Rise, and it's about
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  Speaker 2: a city illuminated with the creative spirit. And so there's
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  Speaker 2: a cityscape in which we invite the audience into six
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  Speaker 2: different sections and so the wearable our designers designed for
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  Speaker 2: those sections to give you a little taste of a
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  Speaker 2: couple of those. We have avant garde, which is kind
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  Speaker 2: of at the cature end. It's very beautiful and in
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  Speaker 2: the show that the theme is less and infused. Music
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  Speaker 2: can sultry, and we also try and make something fly
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  Speaker 2: in that section that we sh shouldn't make fly, which
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  Speaker 2: is a hallmark of what wow it does. We have
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  Speaker 2: a section called Neon, which, as you can imagine, is
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  Speaker 2: just a riot of color and our designers have really
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  Speaker 2: gone to town in that section. That's just huge fun.
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  Speaker 2: And the music soundtrack is this nineties inspired club hits,
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  Speaker 2: so some real bang isn't there. And then we've finished
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  Speaker 2: with Miss Simn Legends, which is ready for designs inspired
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  Speaker 2: by the mythic and the finale is really a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: operatic moment with an incredible vocal performance. So that's just
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  Speaker 2: a taste of about half of what they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: just can expect it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, this year brilliant and sixty thousand people heading to
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  Speaker 1: Wellington got to be a good thing. Nick. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for your time this morning, and best luck
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  Speaker 1: with this year's world of Wearable Art. Meg Williams as
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  Speaker 1: the chief executive for.
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