Model Sophie Palladino with Aje co-founder Edwina Forest at Barangaroo,where they will show their resort collection at Australian Fashion Week.

A slimmed-down Australian Fashion Week has ruffled more than skirts

Big names and a smaller schedule are part of this year’s premier industry event for Australian fashion as organisers recalibrate with a new-look four-day program.

  • Damien Woolnough

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Fashion collector Charlotte Smith with some of her vintage clothing at Dirty Janes,Bowral.

Charlotte’s clothes fill a storage facility. Soon,they will fit in her wardrobe – and,perhaps,yours

The owner of the southern hemisphere’s largest fashion collection is selling up,with Australian vintage shoppers to reap the benefits.

  • Mary Ward

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
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
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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
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