The Australian couple behind London's most luxurious label
From Cronulla to high couture: Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo are transforming fashion with an easy charm that’s a winner with A-listers, including Meghan Markle.
Michael Russo and Tamara Ralph in their “by appointment only” maison in Mayfair, London. Gabby Laurent
Behind the door of a 19th-century Mayfair townhouse, across seven floors with high ceilings, dove-grey carpets and a grand staircase sweeping around an enormous 1920s chandelier, dreams are given wings.
The manicured fingers that press the buzzer of this maison de couture know that the finery they’re about to witness – silk capes trimmed with ostrich feathers, gowns embellished with sequins and pearls, lapel-free jackets with teeny-tiny fabric flowers – is so exquisite as to seem otherworldly.
