Collette dinnigan designer biography projects
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Collette dinnigan designer biography projects
Collette Dinnigan
Australian fashion designer
Collette Mary Ann DinniganAO (born 24 September 1965)[1] is an Australian fashion designer. Born in South Africa and raised in New Zealand, Dinnigan moved to Australia, where she worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
She opened her own range in 1990, with the launch of a dry-clean only lingerie collection,[2] and was the first Australian to launch a ready-to-wear collection, in Paris in 1995.[3][4]
Early life
Collette Dinnigan was born in South Africa on 24 September 1965.
When she was eight, her family including a younger brother lived on their yacht for a number of years, eventually sailing around the southern coast of Australia and on to New Zealand, where they decided to remain. She graduated from a fashion design course at Wellington Polytechnic because she liked fashion designing.
She later moved to Sydney, where she worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation