Who's the girl in the $1m dress? (+pics)
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Security was on high alert at SkyCity Casino as all eyes stared at the girl in the $1 million dress.
The dress, modelled by Amber Peebles, was made out of 200 casino chips worth $5000 each, and required the MTV presenter to have her own security team following her around.
It was tailor-made to promote the inaugural SkyCity Festival of Poker, and had its first and only unveiling at the Lee Nelson and Brooke Howard-Smith Celebrity & Media Invitational poker tournament last night.
Peebles said she felt a little like celebrity socialite Paris Hilton when she put the dress on.
"When SkyCity first pitched me on the idea of the million dollar chip dress I thought it was very Paris Hilton," she said.
"But how many times does a girl get to wear a million bucks?
"When I saw the dress and how much trouble they’d gone to, I thought it looked really amazing."
The dress weighed more than two kilograms and last night was the only time it will be worn.
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