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Carla Zampatti

April 2024

The business owner who outsourced her fashion choices

Michelle May, buyer’s agent, used to wear head-to-toe black. When she launched her own business, she was adamant she would be herself. In colour.

  • Lauren Sams

November 2023

Alex Schuman eschews breakfast and sticks to coffee in the AM.

This CEO’s morning is ‘entirely driven by coffee’

Alex Schuman, CEO of fashion house Carla Zampatti, normally skips breakfast, and other morning rituals such as jogging or meditating.

  • Lauren Sams

December 2022

Eva Chen, wearing a dress by Valentino: “I remember the day Instagram was launched, and I remember thinking, this is a game changer for the fashion and beauty industries.”

Ten of the best fashion reads from 2022

Against the backdrop of a wild year in fashion, fashion editor Lauren Sams shared the stories of some of the industry’s most interesting people and ventures. Here are 10 of the best read stories for the year.

Ten top AFR Magazine reads in 2022

This year, writers went behind the scenes and analysed the big themes that defined Australia’s year in business and beyond.

November 2022

Leila Naja Hibri, CEO of the Australian Fashion Council.

The accountant who became the most fashionable woman in Australia

Leila Naja Hibri is credited with having steered the Australian fashion industry through the tumult of the pandemic.

  • Lauren Sams
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August 2022

Carla Zampatti, pictured in her Woollahra home in 2018.

‘You need to look fabulous’: Carla Zampatti’s advice to women leaders

From parliamentary portraits to CEO appointments, a new exhibition charts the runaway success of this fashion icon.

  • Lauren Sams

May 2022

Best foot first: the late Carla Zampatti was a trailblazing businesswoman and an inspiration to young female professionals, Kean said

NSW government honours Carla Zampatti with $10m VC fund for women

Details of the fund have been released ahead of the NSW budget, which is expected to include a suite of initiatives improving economic opportunities for women.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

May 2022

Bianca Spender with her mother, the late Carla Zampatti, in 2018.

Bianca Spender to open fashion week, with Allegra front row

Kicking off Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, Bianca Spender will show at a gallery named for her late mother, Carla Zampatti.

  • Lauren Sams

March 2022

Catherine Renshaw wearing Carla Zampatti at her launch.

Renshaw dons Zampatti for North Sydney Labor launch

It’s hardly the traditional Labor red shirt. But these are Sydney’s harbourside electorates we’re talking about.

  • Myriam Robin
Kellie Hush, a trustee of the Museum for Applied Arts and Sciences, with models at the late Carla Zampatti’s Woollahra home.

Carla Zampatti to be honoured with Powerhouse retrospective

The late designer will be remembered at an exhibit in November, as the museum calls for public submissions to boost its collection.

  • Lauren Sams

January 2022

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 15: Allegra Spender daughter of Carla Zampatti, is seen following the State Funeral for Carla Zampatti at St Mary’s Cathedral on April 15, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.

Allegra Spender is director of company that breached sex-equality law

The independent candidate challenging the Liberal Party in Wentworth was a director of Carla Zampatti’s business when it broke the workplace gender equity law.

  • Aaron Patrick

November 2021

Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

The short-seller and his wife going after Morrison

With the Prime Minister worried about a hung parliament, a successful Sydney couple is behind an anti-Liberal campaign in Wentworth.

  • Aaron Patrick

August 2021

Carla Zampatti, Ita Buttrose and Catherine Livingstone are just three of the many inspirational leaders worth celebrating.

Seven female business leaders who were trailblazers

The Financial Review’s 70th anniversary is an ideal opportunity to celebrate seven female business leaders who were trailblazers in their male-dominated areas of expertise.

  • Tony Boyd

June 2021

Co-founder of Afterpay, Nick Molnar and fashion designer, Rebecca Vallance, at the launch of Australian fashion week.

Who was and wasn’t seen at Australian Fashion Week

It might be called the Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, but as events kicked off on Monday the man who gave it the name was nowhere to be seen.

  • Myriam Robin

May 2021

Victor Zheng’s mx51 has raised $25 million only a year after spinning out of fintech Assembly Payments.

Westpac-backed fintech start-up mx51 raises $25m

The start-up sells a white label product that lets banks and non-bank acquirers offer merchants a payments platform to rival Stripe, Tyro and Square.

  • Yolanda Redrup
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April 2021

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Carla Zampatti farewelled in a state funeral

A cohort of Australian business, political and cultural leaders filled St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney on Thursday to farewell fashion icon Carla Zampatti.

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  • Fiona Carruthers
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Andrew Hornery’s anonymous world

Thanks to the SMH gossip columnist, it’s like we lost Carla Zampatti twice.

  • Joe Aston
Smashed the business glass ceiling: Carla Zampatti.

A pioneer who brought European style to Australia

Carla Zampatti was more than a fashion design icon.

  • The AFR View
Carla Zampatti photographed at her home in Woollahra in May 2020.

How Carla Zampatti helped put Australian fashion on the map

The pioneering designer created nothing less than a new aesthetic for Australian women – and forged a path for them in business like no other, writes Lauren Sams.

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  • Lauren Sams
Carla Zampatti in her Sydney office. February 27, 2009.

Carla Zampatti embodied the best of our nation

The pioneering Australian fashion designer, who has died at 78, possessed an egalitarian disposition and the mindset of a global citizen.

  • Brett Clegg

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