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Top WOW award again for Bay’s MacKenzie

Hawke’s Bay artist Kate MacKenzie has won the top World of WearableArt prize for a second time. The winners of this year’s World of WearableArt awards were announced last night as the show’s 21⁄ 2- week run at Wellington’s TSB Arena on Queens Wharf continues.

MacKenzie – who won the Supreme WOWAward in 2014 – was again announced as the SupremeWOW Award winner, for her `WantonWidow’, which also won the Open section award.

``We are in awe of the designer’s resourcefulness in use of the vintage china cabinet and Singer sewing machine drawers. It perfectly captures what we mean when we say wearable art. It is refined, sculptural and tells a story,’’ the judges said ofWanton Widow in a statement.

New Zealand’s Fifi Colston and Bruce Mahalski won the Aotearoa section award for their `Fera Dei’; `Documental’ by Australia’s Bethany Cordwell won the Avant-garde section; `Life’ by Sun Ye, Ma Yuru and Zhou Honglei from China won the Monochromatic section; Hungary’s Anna Weszelovszky won the Architecture section with `Hidden Layers’; and the United States’ Veritée Hill won the Elizabethan Era section for her `Madame Paon Doré’.

Colston and Mahalski’s `Fera Dei’ was also the runner-up for the Supreme WOWAward.

``Finally we can give each of the garments their moment to shine on the WOWstage,’’ the show’s competition director Heather Palmer said in a statement.

``To see the passion, innovation and dedication of this year’s finalists is incredibly affirming, and it is heartening to see the wearable artmovement around the globe remains alive and well,’’ Palmer said.

This year there were 88 finalist entries created by 103 designers from 20 countries.

A total of 21 winners won more than $185,000 in prizes. Judges this year were World of WearableArt founder Dame Suzie Moncrieff, co-founder of Zambesi Elisabeth Findlay, sculptor Jeff Thomson, costume designer Alexandra Byrne, Swedish-born fashion activist B Åkerlund and Wētā Workshop cofounder Sir Richard Taylor.

The show – directed by Malia Johnston – features more than 100 dancers, kapa haka performers and aerialists, as well as headline performances by New Zealand musicians Este`re and Sharn Te Pou.

It runs to October 16.

World of WearableArt winners SupremeWOWAward:

Wanton Widow, Kate MacKenzie, New Zealand Runner-up: Fera Dei, Fifi Colston and Bruce Mahalski, New Zealand Aotearoa Section: Fera Dei, Fifi Colston and Bruce Mahalski, New Zealand Avant-garde Section: Documental, Bethany Cordwell, Australia

Monochromatic Section: Life, Sun Ye, Ma Yuru and Zhou Honglei, China Open Section: WantonWidow, Kate MacKenzie, New Zealand Architecture Section: Hidden Layers, Anna Weszelovszky, Hungary Elizabethan Era Section: Madame Paon Doré, Veritée Hill, United States Dame Suzie MoncrieffAward: Dark Alien Doctor, Cecilio Castrillo, Spain First-time EntrantAward:

Glistening Gothic Tracery, Colleen Muscha and Christina Marullo, United States Student InnovationAward:

Beneath, Agnes Olah, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, United Kingdom Wearable TechnologyAward:

Little Electric Dress (LED), Dinah Walker and MarkWalker, New Zealand

SustainabilityAward: Haerenga (Journey), Christopher Davis, New Zealand NewZealand DesignAward:

Aetatem Aureum: Elizabeth & Her Lady, Carolyn Gibson and Joelle Marsh, New Zealand

Absolutely Positively Wellington International Design Awards:

UK & Europe: Andromeda, Cecilio

Castrillo, Spain

Asia: Neoru, Jayati Saraf, Pearl Academy, India Americas: Elizabethan Jester, Miodrag Guberinic, United States Australia & Pacific: Revolution, Hanna Smith, Australia

OverallWinner: Neoru, Jayati Saraf, Pearl Academy, India

Wētā Workshop Emerging Designer Award:

The Giant Purse, Thao Nguyen, Vietnam

The Residency Experience Award:

Documental, Bethany Cordwell, Australia

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