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It's been 25 years since New Zealand fashion line El Jay closed down. In that time few people have been inside its central Auckland headquarters until now.Gus Fisher's workroom is reopening today for a three-day fabric sale, giving New Zealanders a chance to own a piece of local fashion history.He's shaking off the dust of time and opening up the Kingston St building that's been empty and largely untouched since it closed its doors in 1988.This was the heart of the fashion label El Jay, established by Fisher the only New Zealander to have the privilege of making and selling Christian Dior designs here. 

"It's a wonderful legacy that he's left and this is sort of a lasting reminder of it," says son Michael Fisher.Generally upward slopes are more difficult to work with since Sheath One Shoulder White Ruched Chiffon Bridemaid Dresses they require further excavation and use more retaining walls.Gus Fisher, who died three years ago, worked alongside the French designer for 35 years and held the world's longest-running license with Dior.Himalayan Salt Lamps are not just beautiful New blue A-line chiffon One Shoulder Beaded Bride dress they also produce negative ions which cleans the air that we breathe. He travelled to Paris to bring back quality material and stylish designs for Kiwi women."It was one of the early clothing manufacturers in New Zealand to establish up-to-date, high quality and garments that were as elegant as those manufactured in Paris, London and New York," says fashion historian Angela Lassig.There are different chiffon Spaghetti Straps Draped Pleat beaded evening dresses kinds of clippers the two most common being the guillotine type and the scissors type."Gus Fisher is an icon of New Zealand fashion," says Doris de Pont, founder of the NZ Fashion Museum. "Everybody knows Gus Fisher and everyone aspired to have an El Jay or a Dior by El Jay.The cost for hiring a limousine or cab to take you to New Mermaid One Shoulder Beading Chiffon Long Prom Dresses and from the airport is also an unnecessary financial burden." 

Earlier this year, Michael Fisher donated original lookbook catalogues to the Dior archive in Paris. Other pieces will remain with the Fisher family, but this weekend hundreds of metres of fabric will be sold to the public."He'll be happy to see those garments used again, he'll be looking down on us gleefully," says Lassig.And they'll go for the same price they were sold for in the 1960s, '70s and '80s.But it's not just the material that will draw people in the Fisher family says almost every developer and lawyer in town has asked to see the building, hoping to use it for offices.Michael Fisher says his father was determined to protect and preserve the El Jay building,Since this one flavor of White chiffon beaded round neck A-line long Evening dresses electronic cigarette had used ingredients which were extracted from a conventionally. saying it was his father's very own shrine.

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