Mrs Trish Gregory, of Auckland, MNZM for services to the fashion industry
Mrs Trish Gregory opened ‘The Fig Leaf’ boutique in Timaru and was the first New Zealand fashion designer to receive a prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Award. She won a place at the Royal College of Art, and then interned at Vogue Magazine and the International Wool Secretariat in London. She received the New Zealand Industrial Design Council’s ‘Designmark’ for her ‘High Fashion in a Kitset’ concept, which allowed sewers to craft professionally designed pre-cut garments at home. She designed the graphics for Team New Zealand’s 1987 America’s Cup entry. Mrs Gregory worked with large New Zealand manufacturers developing and designing new possum/merino knitwear collections.