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Hasina, a garment worker from Bangladesh, told Baptist World Aid’s Ethical Fashion Report she had been pressured to lie about working overtime at audits. Women, who make up the majority of fashion’s labour force, experience disproportionately poor working conditions.

Australian fashion brands fail to pay garment workers a living wage

A new report into the sustainability of Australian fashion brands has found some shopping mall offenders, and some unexpected “success” stories.

  • Penry Buckley

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Beare Park “Joyce” dress, $820. Venroy “Balconette” bikini top, $140. Model’s own jeans.

Australia may be the birthplace of the ugg boot, but we are leading the fashion stakes

“We are not fussy and we are not pretentious. The same applies to the way that we dress.”

  • Damien Woolnough
Eighties Brat Pack movies were the inspiration for Zimmermann’s 2025 resort collection called ‘Crush’.

Billion-dollar brand Zimmermann joins the Brat Pack for its new look

The founder of Australia’s biggest global luxury fashion label reveals the eighties movies that inspired her latest collection.

  • Damien Woolnough
Which Australian brand could be next to sell to a global buyer?

‘Authentically Australian’: The year we lost Bondi Sands, Zimmermann, Four Pillars

Global conglomerates paid billions of dollars for Australian brands this year – and some experts believe Aje, Smiggle, Peter Alexander could be next.

  • Jessica Yun

What it’s really like to stage a mega-fashion show in Paris

Weeks after Zimmermann became Australia’s first fashion unicorn, creative director Nicky took us behind the scenes to see what it really takes to get runway-ready.

  • Dave Tacon
Kim Kardashian in her new bra “with a built-in nipple”.

In an era of Barbie pink and nipple bras, one trend keeps me sane

2023 in fashion: the highs, the lows and an obscenely expensive man bag.

  • Marion Hume
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Venroy dress, $200. Sea Level Australia “Spinnaker” bandeau, $100, and bikini pants, $60. Basil Bangs umbrellas, $199 each, and deck chairs, $389 each. Oliver James inflatable ring, $1200.

How the European summer aesthetic has infiltrated Australian fashion

Bold reds, cabana prints and swimwear-inspired bodysuits reveal an outbreak of Italian exuberance among local designers.

  • Damien Woolnough
Sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann co-founded the fashion label Zimmermann that spans swimwear, gowns and accessories. Simone works as the brand’s chief operating officer and Nicky focuses on design as creative director.

‘It’s never only been about the money’: The Zimmermann success story

From a market stall to a reported billion-dollar valuation, Nicole and Simone Zimmermann’s label is an inspiration.

  • Damien Woolnough
The Zimmermann resort 2024 collection.

Zimmermann sisters sell fashion label in reported billion-dollar deal

Following an unsolicited offer of $1.75 billion, the Sydney-based brand prepares to conquer Asia and the Middle East.

  • Damien Woolnough
The woman was captured stealing clothing from the David Jones in Bourke Street.

Mother, daughter shoplifters amass Aladdin’s cave of stolen designer clothes

The duo stole more than $56,000 in luxury items from a David Jones store in the CBD, with the mother’s lawyer saying expensive clothing was her “choice of joy”.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola

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