Denise L'Estrange-Corbet

Dame Denise Ann L'Estrange-Corbet (born ) At the age of 3 her mother took her and her sister to England to escape an abusive alcoholic father, and she was raised in London.

Honours and awards

In 1995 WORLD's designs won the Avant Garde category at the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Award, a $5000 prize. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, L'Estrange-Corbet was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM), for services to fashion design. She was promoted to Dame Companion (DNZM) of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to fashion and the community. She won the Westpac New Zealand Women of Influence Award in 2017 in the category Art and Culture. The brand had not been rated by TEAR Fund's labour standards ratings scheme because of the claim all the products were made in New Zealand. L'Estrange-Corbet defended WORLD's practices, calling the story "gutter journalism" and a "beat-up", and saying that the "clothing tags that say 'Made in NZ' are made in NZ, so there is nothing misleading about this".

Publications