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Viv Beck: Heart of the City CEO on New Zealand Fashion week kicking off in Auckland · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New Zealand Fashion Week kicks off today, celebrating twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years at seven point eight billion dollar industry in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: employing around seventy six thousand workers. Viv Beck, Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the City CEO with me this morning. Viv, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. So what are you going to be wearing
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  Speaker 1: to this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm still working it out because you need to
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  Speaker 2: wear flat shoes to the launch. So that's an interesting
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  Speaker 2: one with a cocktail output.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, why flat shoes?
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  Speaker 2: Is that? Because of that? Well, it's something to do
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  Speaker 2: with the venue. So all we're revealed.
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  Speaker 1: Short ladies won't like that, Viv.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be interesting to see if people do.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, so does this actually bring any money in
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  Speaker 1: for Auckland or not?
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely does.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, there was a noticeable increase in sales last year
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  Speaker 3: around the Queens Street area in downtown apparel and hospitality
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  Speaker 3: in particular, on the Wednesday it was nineteen point six
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  Speaker 3: percent up on the previous week, and the Friday thirty
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  Speaker 3: two percent, and it brought a real buzz. Actually, it
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  Speaker 3: was a great event last year and we're particularly excited
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  Speaker 3: this year because it's a great year for the city
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  Speaker 3: center and a great week with the open day for CRL.
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  Speaker 2: On Saturday and the new station, and also.
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  Speaker 3: Right in the middle of restaurant months, so we're expecting
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  Speaker 3: a boomer.
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  Speaker 1: Have they told us where the opening thing? Is that
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  Speaker 1: or is that a surprise?
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  Speaker 3: It's the station, the new station t Y which has
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  Speaker 3: got entrance to Victoria Street and Wellesley Street.
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  Speaker 1: So will they be going the on the cat what
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  Speaker 1: we'll go up and down the escalator? Will it go
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  Speaker 1: along the train?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry? No, no, sorry that we've got an open day
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  Speaker 2: that's for people to come and see DRL.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I'm talking about the fashion show. Well the
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  Speaker 1: fashion show. Do you think they'll have it down underground?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not that I'm aware of it mostly around Shed
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  Speaker 2: ten with a few other locations. But we did actually
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  Speaker 2: launch restaurant months in the underground. That was fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: Did you notice they had all these like a disco
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  Speaker 1: thing going on? They had all these weird sort of dancers.
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  Speaker 1: What was that about? Whereabout in the subway? It was
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  Speaker 1: very strange. I don't know if you'd record it.
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  Speaker 2: To quarter gall that might have been. Was that on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: You mean the opening of the other State another station
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  Speaker 2: in k Road.
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  Speaker 1: I might have been that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so we unlikely to see anyone walking down a
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  Speaker 1: catwalk in a train station.
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  Speaker 2: Well unless it's a surprise, Well you never know.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, good stuff, but thank you for bet Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the City chief executive. For more from Early edition with
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