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Sydney philanthropist Gene Sherman has called for the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo to become the stateâs first cultural institution dedicated to the display of design, decorative arts, and fashion, and has offered to seed it with a large donation from her family.
However the president of the Powerhouse trust, Peter Collins, said he did not support splitting the museumâs collection.
Gene Sherman at the SCCI Pavilion Centennial Park.
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A former Powerhouse trustee, Dr Sherman wants the Ultimo museum to focus on crowd-pleasing exhibitions of costume and designer fashion, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, and architecture, and leave the new Parramatta museum to focus on science and technology.
A fine romance merging colour and movement
Collaborators Luke Sales, left, Anna Plunkett, centre, and Glenn Barkley.
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“We want everything we make to have an intent, a reason for being,” says Luke Sales. Sales, one half of Australian design duo Romance was Born, with co-creator Anna Plunkett, speaks slowly and purposefully, as if to illustrate his very point.
“We don’t want to ever make something just for the hell of it,” he says. “If you’re going to make a print, you may as well start with a beautiful artwork – the highest expression of what it can be. Something that is not two-dimensional, something that has meaning. When you use fabric like that it gives a story, an expression.”
How Carla Zampatti helped put Australian fashion on the map
The pioneering designer created nothing less than a new aesthetic for Australian women â and forged a path for them in business like no other.
Carla Zampatti photographed at her home in Woollahra in May 2020.Â
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Rarely seen without her signature sunglasses or the impeccably tailored wide-leg jumpsuits she favoured, Carla Zampatti was a figure who loomed so large in the imaginations, and closets, of so many that she appeared to be close to invincible.
Indeed, Zampatti has been such a part of the countryâs social fabric â and indeed, its literal fabric â for so long, that her death, on Saturday, was a devastating shock for many. Zampatti was 78.