Vale Carla Zampatti: ‘Outsider’ who blazed a trail to the front and centre of Australian fashion

“Carla was an icon to the fashion industry, a pioneer as an entrepreneur and a champion of multicultural Australia. It was our great honour to have known her,” Mr Morrison said.

A recent topic of debate was what women want to wear after 2020’s pandemic lockdowns. “She was convinced people wanted to dress up,” Ms Hush said. Zampatti’s daughter, fashion designer Bianca Spender, posted a tribute on Instagram saying “Today I lost my mother, my inspiration, my mentor and my friend. I am lost for words and totally heartbroken”.An online page also swiftly appeared, commemorating Zampatti as Australia’s “most successful and enduring fashion designer” who “has long been celebrated for making Australian women feel confident and elegant through her exceptional design, tailoring and understanding of the modern woman.

In Sydney, she met and married her first husband, Leo Schuman, and in 1965, launched her first fashion collection with her husband as a partner in the business. The demise of her marriage in 1970 meant she lost her factory - but she kept the rights to her name and with that, and a loan from a family member, was able to re-launch. She married politician and diplomat John Spender in 1975, having two more children and three decades together until their 2010 divorce.

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