Fashion doyennes Rebecca Peach and Terry Kaljo find their true loves
Two of Sydney’s most enduringly hip and resilient businesswomen, both retired fashion designers, say they are happier than they’ve ever been after marrying their love matches in their sixties.
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Two of Sydney’s most enduringly hip and resilient businesswomen, both retired fashion designers, say they are happier than they’ve ever been after marrying their love matches in their sixties.
Rebecca Peach, better known during her professional heyday as fashion designer Becky Davies, married property developer Steven Pongrass on April 20.
The marriage was Peach’s second and Pongrass’s third.
The UK-born Peach is the creator of popular 1990s fashion label Bare, a label once worn by Lily Cole and Erica Packer. Peach was previously married to Mark Bouris’s one-time Yellow Brick Road partner Bryan Davies, an investment banker and the father to her three children, one of whom is model Daisy Davies.
The Davies’ marriage, fortune and fashion brand collapsed during the GFC with the couple splitting in 2010.
Having reverted to her maiden name, in 2017 Peach relaunched her business career by opening a beauty and laser clinic in Edgecliff.
Pongrass’s Eastern suburbs pedigree is well known among the well-heeled. He is the son of Hungarian migrant Alex and wife Clara, who made their fortune in engineering, furniture and boat building, mining and property.
Pongrass and Peach met three years ago and were soon inseparable. They had a chic all-white wedding at Rose Bay hotspot Catalina.
In contrast, boutique hotelier, ex model and magazine fashion editor Terry Kaljo held a “big informal family party” when she and her partner of 10 years, Mike Logan, married in Byron Bay recently.
Logan is a business coach and retired cotton farmer who also happens to be the son of jeweller Jan.
The couple married at the Byron Bay Surf Club with 100 guests and their five children from previous marriages and four grandchildren all playing roles.
Kaljo, chair and founder of boutique hotels and luxury property hire business Contemporary Hotels, which is today run by her eldest son Matthew, is renowned for her excellent taste. A former fashion designer, the bride created her own dress and, alongside daughter Billie, she left no detail to chance at the wedding party.
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