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If you dread buying swimwear, these expert tips have you covered

An Australian quiet luxury brand launches its first range, the colours that are on trend, plus the ’90s style making a comeback.

  • Melissa Singer

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Sailor Jess Watson with a new Oroton bag on board the Oroton Drumfire which she’ll be sailing on during this year’s Sydney to Hobart Yacht race.

The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is about to get even more fashionable

Fashion and sailing have always had close ties, but this year Australian brands Oroton, M.J. Bale and Viktoria & Woods are providing a style glow-up.

  • Damien Woolnough
Four of the 12 designers bound for New York (from left) Mariam Seddiq, Christian Kimber, Viktoria & Woods and Acler.

Australian fashion has a storied history in the US. These are its next stars

In the footsteps of Zimmermann and Aesop, 12 Australian fashion brands are taking on New York with the hope of cracking the lucrative American market.

  • Melissa Singer
A Katies ad from the 1980s.

Remembering Katies: From ‘all that glitters’ to retail relic

Once a mecca for “pants and a nice top” for Baby Boomers, Katies will be no more. What happened?

  • Melissa Singer
Maggie Tabberer at the Veuve clicquot awards, 2006.

Ageless style defied the career-limiting odds of the fashion industry

Helmut Newton pronounced the photographs of Maggie Tabberer to be “wonderful, just wonderful!”

  • Amy Ripley
Australia’s first supermodel Maggie Tabberer in 2017.

Australia’s first supermodel Maggie Tabberer dies at 87

From model to television personality, Maggie Tabberer paved the way for Deborah Hutton, Jennifer Hawkins, Miranda Kerr as a multi-hyphenate in fashion.

  • Damien Woolnough
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Noni B owner Mosaic Brands is in a trading halt.

Katies and Noni B owner allegedly left directors uninsured

Clothing group Mosaic Brands went into administration in late October with debts of at least $249 million.

  • Anne Hyland
Forging a new pattern … Effie Kats in her Melbourne workroom.

How a photography school drop-out become one of the hottest names in Australian fashion

Already a hit with influencers, Effie Kats proved this spring carnival she’s also a label for “serious” women. Now she’s on track to make her first $1 million.

  • Melissa Singer
Katy Perry, left, and Australian fashion designer Katie Jane Taylor, who sells clothing under the brand name Katie Perry.

Katy Perry wins appeal in trademark fight with Sydney fashion designer

A court ruled an Australian loungewear designer’s “Katie Perry” brand name should be cancelled, in a decision the small businesswoman said was “heartbreaking”.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Stephen Bennett, founder of Country Road, has been awarded the Australian Fashion Laureate Lifetime Achievement Award. A model wearing Country Road in a 1996 fashion shoot.

Classic Country Road returns to the fashion frontlines with top award

Stephen Bennett, founder of Country Road, is finally recognised by the Australian fashion industry with an award.

  • Damien Woolnough

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