Collette Dinnigan swaps fashion for a villa in Italy's latest hotspot
Since closing her clothing label in 2013, the Australian designer has focused on styling luxury homes – the latest, a 500-year-old farmhouse in Puglia that will soon be available to stay in.
Collette Dinnigan at Casa Olivetta in Ostuni, Puglia, just above Italy's southern "heel". Antoine Doyen
Ask an acclaimed fashion designer the impact of relocating her life from Sydney and the Southern Highlands of NSW to an 18th-century apartment in the heart of old Rome and the answer is not entirely unexpected: “My eye has changed in Italy,” muses Collette Dinnigan.
We’re sitting on Dinnigan’s rooftop terrace atop the “tall house” in Rome which she, husband Bradley Cocks and their young son Hunter now call home.
Marion HumeFashion WriterMarion Hume is an international fashion writer. She has been covering the fashion industry for more than three decades. She is based in London.
