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Costume designer Kate Hawley has designed everything from gorgeous Victorian frocks for English theatrical productions to superhero costumes and robot outfits for blockbuster Hollywood movies.

When she talks to NEXT at 7pm on a weeknight, Kate is still at work on her latest production – designing the costumes for the first two episodes of the Amazon television series, Lord of the Rings. While it has been announced she is working on the gig, she can’t talk about it officially, except to say that it’s occupying her every moment. “We go to sleep, and we wake up and start again. But I love what I do and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

While everything happening in the Auckland-based production has to

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