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From Jenny Kee to Pip Edwards: 10 women on the best advice their mothers gave them

From Jenny Kee to Pip Edwards: 10 women on the best advice their mothers gave them

Ten prominent Australian women share the best advice their mothers gave them – and how that plays into their day-to-day life.

  • by Jane Rocca

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Jenny Kee’s aunties honoured in her giant ‘song of Sydney’

Jenny Kee’s aunties honoured in her giant ‘song of Sydney’

The designer who helped shape Australian fashion pays tribute to her influential aunties as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.

  • by Helen Pitt
Praise to St Brigid, Woollahra gets new permanent art gallery

Praise to St Brigid, Woollahra gets new permanent art gallery

It’s been a library, family home and the headquarters for an espionage inquiry, now St Brigid’s will open as a permanent public art gallery.

  • by Julie Power
‘Waratah rising from the fires’: Powerhouse funds get mixed reviews

‘Waratah rising from the fires’: Powerhouse funds get mixed reviews

Critics dispute the $500 million cost of renovating the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo but Sydney’s fashion designers say it can’t come soon enough.

  • by Linda Morris
Jenny Kee: 'I very rarely buy clothes any more'

Jenny Kee: 'I very rarely buy clothes any more'

'I don’t follow fashion trends; I don’t know how to! But I don’t buy too much of anything, and that’s a trend now.'

  • by Georgie Gordon
Why Minna Gilligan overdresses for every occasion

Why Minna Gilligan overdresses for every occasion

"Fashion is about self-expression; putting together outfits is another form of art for me," says the artist.

  • by Georgie Gordon
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Reasons to be cheerful in the Blue Mountains

Reasons to be cheerful in the Blue Mountains

In the aftermath of the fires, an adventure guide returned with a tour party to the Blue Mountains wilderness on Wednesday. He sees abundant reasons for hope.

  • by Daniel Lewis
Jenny Kee looks beyond the fear in fire
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Jenny Kee looks beyond the fear in fire

Jenny Kee, the designer who put Australiana on the international fashion map with her striking prints of waratahs, koalas and the Australian bush, has found something more than fear in fires.

  • by Samantha Hutchinson
Gladys Berejiklian's Christmas gift to Sydney will disappoint
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Gladys Berejiklian's Christmas gift to Sydney will disappoint

Beneath the wrapping is yet another exorbitant, wasteful and widely opposed knockdown-rebuild.

  • by Elizabeth Farrelly
Jenny Kee: 'My life radically changed and the simplicity started'

Jenny Kee: 'My life radically changed and the simplicity started'

The fashion designer talks on nearly losing all her finances, how deaths impacted her life and finding Buddhism after the Granville rail disaster.

  • by Benjamin Law
'Creative version of a first love': The colourful impact of Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson

'Creative version of a first love': The colourful impact of Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson

As one of the most influential partnerships in Australian fashion, Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson transformed the nation’s sense of style.

  • by Jane Rocca

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