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Tributes flow in for Carla Zampatti as the industry mourns the loss of an icon 6 April 2021
Legendary Australian fashion designer Carla Zampatti has died in Sydney.
Carla Zampatti is Australia’s most successful and enduring fashion designer, launching her eponymous label in 1965. Executive Chairman of Carla Zampatti Pty Ltd, Carla has long been celebrated for making Australian women feel confident and elegant through her exceptional design, tailoring and understanding of the modern woman.
Born in Italy, Carla settled with her family in Western Australia in 1950. After moving to Sydney in her 20s, she produced her first small fashion collection in 1965. Two years later she launched her collection nationally and in 1970 established Carla Zampatti Pty Ltd.
In her memoir,
M
y Life, My Look, she also details a relationship peppered with infidelities as her husband made little attempt to hide his roving eye. The most difficult part is that he was in my business so we had to overcome that, she told
Studio 10.
In her divorce in 1970, Zampatti was forced to hand over her fashion factory and all remaining stock to her ex-husband. She was left with two apartments, two huge mortgages, her son, and a society that wasn t yet accepting of a single working mother.
In an interview with
Nine in May 2021, Zampatti spoke about her struggle to start a business as a single mother in the 60s and 70s, when women were in a different place .
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Fashion designer Carla Zampatti will be given a state funeral after family accepts NSW government s offer
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Leaders from across Australia paid tribute to the legendary designer
Her family has accepted the NSW Government s offer of a state funeral
Zampatti died yesterday, aged 78, after falling and losing consciousness at the Opera in Sydney a week ago.
Her family has accepted the NSW Government s offer of a state funeral, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in a statement.