Collette dinnigan

Collette became the first Australian to mount a full-scale ready-to-wear collection in Paris in October 1995, and in 1996 was invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to show on the prestigious Paris Fashion Week schedule.

"I said, 'No way.'"

When designer Collette Dinnigan, her husband Bradley Cocks and children Estella and Hunter took off for a year’s sabbatical to enjoy the Italian bella vita in 2016, making the country their second home was the last thing they imagined doing. “At the time it was just a really big adventure,” says Dinnigan as she bustles around the generously proportioned kitchen in Casa Olivetta, the 500-year-old farmhouse the couple have spent four years renovating in the Puglian region of Ostuni, about an…

“A lot of people always ask me why I moved from fashion in Paris to ceramics and linen …”

Fashion show on the Fashion Model Directory

Fashion designer Collette Dinnigan reflects on how closing after she made her name creating beautiful clothes for the Paris runways changed everything.

Designer Collette Dinnigan lends her signature romantic style to an 18th-century Roman rooftop apartment, where she has been living for over a year, as well as a new range of artisanal homewares. Photographed by Oddur Thorisson.

Collette Dinnigan - Spring 2000 RTW

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