Charlotte Smith and her godmother spent decades building a wardrobe wonderland, but the time has come to let it go.
Charlotte Smith in a Hardy Amies suit from the 1970s, part of her 5000-strong collection of fashion history, part of which will now go to the National Museum of Australia. Louie Douvis
For fashion collector Charlotte Smith, old is not a dirty word.
In fact, there was a time when Smith’s clothing archive numbered more than 10,000 pieces, gathered over more than 70 years and representing fashion history from the last 250 years.
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