This Month
The young Aussie designers who could be the next Zimmermann
Zero-waste weaving and old blankets helped Ethan Bergersen and Indigo Stuart take home the $31,000 Australian Fashion Foundation Scholarship Award.
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- Lauren Sams
Fashion Week is back, with surprise faces from the past
In fashion, everything old is new again. While Australian Fashion Week waits for a permanent sponsor, an old hand has returned to steer it back to glory.
- Lauren Sams
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Fashion Week might be over, but Australian designers have a new show
Growing a brand internationally is expensive and time-consuming, but Jenny Nakkan has a solution for that.
- Lauren Sams
‘She transcended age and time’: fashion icon remembered
Trailblazing model and designer Maggie Tabberer, who was known for her distinctive style and inclusive sense of fashion, has died at 87.
- Lauren Sams
November
The winners at the last Australian Fashion Laureate awards
The sun – and the local industry – came out to celebrate Australian fashion one last time.
- Lauren Sams
Industry steps in to save Fashion Week – for a year, at least
When funding was pulled for the 28-year-old event last week, the industry was left in a state of shock. Now, it’s rallying.
- Lauren Sams
Fashion Week in limbo as IMG exits Australian events
The New York-based company that has run the event for the past 20 years says it will stop running events in the country.
- Lauren Sams
August
425 stores in 54 countries: How this Aussie brand rapidly expanded
The first time Lesleigh Jermanus went to Australian Fashion Week, she was an intern. The second time, her label Alemais was the opening show.
- Lauren Sams
July
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Bassike third local fashion business to lose a co-founder this year
Bassike co-founder Mary Lou Ryan is leaving the business she helped create.
- Lauren Sams
Not an outlet store: how fashion brands are making discounting cool
With the opening of a new “luxury discount” precinct in Sydney, local retailers are trying to make sales fashionable.
- Lauren Sams
June
Christopher Esber first Australian to win French fashion accolade
The Sydney designer has won the prestigious ANDAM Grand Prize, taking home more than $400,000 in prize money.
- Lauren Sams
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Country Road owner probes claim suppliers pressured into ‘rebates’
Woolworths Holdings has engaged a law firm to investigate whether managers improperly pushed for price cuts, threatening to buy less, to meet earnings targets.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jonathan Shapiro
May
‘No guarantee that a sale is a sale’: Why fashion is harder than ever
Growing costs, post-pandemic pain, excess spending and the bugbear of online returns are at the heart of a fashion industry on the brink.
- Lauren Sams
Why Fashion Week is still important
Its star power dimmed, the week that used to be about celebrating Australian fashion is now a carefully calibrated exercise about return on investment.
- Lauren Sams
The 20-year-old brand making its fashion week debut
The woman behind Melbourne born-and-bred cool girl label Viktoria & Woods says it’s finally time to reach a wider audience.
- Lauren Sams
‘New York polish, Ballarat work ethic’: the designer creating an empire
Other Australian brands are struggling. So what’s Rebecca Vallance doing right?
- Lauren Sams
March
How Blundstone quietly conquered Britain
A decade ago only Aussies in London wore Blunnies. Now they’re ubiquitous, and are a lifestyle choice as much as a work boot. Appealing to women was key to success.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Cult label Aje cuts 20 staff after massive stock clearance
The fashion label has let a number of senior staff go, but its co-founder says the move is simply a restructure and that the business is trading as usual.
- Lauren Sams and Sarah Thompson
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Private equity-backed swimwear group Tigerlily collapses
For the second time in four years, the company founded by Jodhi Meares has gone under. Its owner, Crescent Capital, tried to sell the retailer last year.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
January
What R.M. Williams plans to do next
NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg wears them, British Security Minister Tom Tugendhat is a fan, and so is House of Lords member Mark Sedwill. It’s no surprise the next stop for the Andrew Forrest-owned bootmaker is Europe.
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- Hans van Leeuwen