Judges for fashion awards announced

Press, 27 July 1976, Page 12

Judges for fashion awards announced

The editor of the “Australian Women’s Weekly,” A;Miss Ita Buttrose, of Sydney,! Twill judge this year’s Benson. ' and Hedges Fashion Design! Awards. 2 Miss Buttrose will be: 2 Joined by Mr Peter Mitchell; 2 of Auckland. Mr Mitchell is I managing director of Mitchell! r: Publications. Ltd, which pub-’ 1 lishes several New Zealand I magazines, including "ApIparel,” the magazine of the! -I New Zealand fashion indus-l ■‘try. : Jj Miss Buttrose, who was the! editor of “Cleo”' i magazine in Australia, was [fashion editor of the “Daily! ’’Telegraph” and the '“Sunday! t Telegraph” in Sydney. For’ II three years she was fashion ’!co-ordinator of the English f I publication. “Women’s Own.” 1 Entries in the 1976 Benson - and Hedges Awards will be: ; judged in Wellington on October 3 and 4, the awards will be presented at the Wellington Town Hall on the evening of October 4. i This year the prize money. |has been increased to $3000.! ■'A women’s sports wear cate-j J gory has been included in’ the four sections. ; Prizes of $750 each will I go to the designers of the '.winning entries in the gown ! of the year, women’s davwear, women’s sportswear: and young designers’ (under 125) sections. The entry judged: 'lto he the most outstanding! lover all sections will win thei ■ Benson and Hedges supreme! . award for New Zealand fashI ion design. The Wool Board [is offering a special tronhv for the most outstanding ■‘woollen garment. The competition is being I organised by the Wellington • fashion co-ordinator Miss . Tosenhine Brodie. Proceeds of ■ > the presentations in Welling-: . ton will go to citv’s new! I Town Hal! project. The gar-1 intents will be taken on a tour'

-of 18 towns and cities ’ throughout the country. , Miss Brodie believes the in--1 Production this year of a seci tion for women’s sportswear will widen the scope of the awards. "They will now cater Iffor everything from high s fashion evening gowns and lldaywear to the type of gar-; - ments worn by New Zealand I women for summer time re- . laxation,” she says.