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    The CHOSEN ONE

    Sep 29, 2021 6 minutes

    The year was 1995 and Yuki Kihara was on a roll.

    Then 19, she may have had to repeat her first year of fashion design at Wellington Polytechnic – “because in that first year all I did was party and get drunk” – but Yuki took out the Dupont Lycra competition, “Action Pasifika – nothing moves like Lycra”, and her award-winning long, tight-fitting graffiti dress, Bombacific, was obtained by Te Papa for its collection.

    After being bullied at college, then battling with her conservative parents to be allowed to leave school for “less academic” tertiary study, the win and Te Papa’s purchase were all Yuki needed to confirm that she was where she was meant to be.

    “That sealed it for me to say, ‘You know what, Yuki? You got it and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise!’ I knew I was on the right track,” she says, adding that it also reassured

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