The woman who dressed Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Princess Diana is giving back to the country she fell for 53 years ago.
first came to Australia, she wasn’t yet an established designer in her native Britain. But after three weeks as a guest of the Sydney textile company Sekers Fabrics, she was “almost like a household name” here.before a lunch at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, to which she has donated six of her designs. “I’d never done anything like stand in a store having my models – like Rebel Penfold-Russell – wear my clothes. It was quite amazing.
“I saw postcards of Uluru, and I was transfixed,” she says. “I would tell people I wanted to go, and they’d say, ‘you could go to Fiji, you could go anywhere’. But that’s where I wanted to go.” With a friend, she travelled to Uluru and found a place unlike any other: “Red dust everywhere, freezing cold at night. Bare bones – there weren’t any hotels. It was camping, very basic.
Garments which are part of the latest donation, from the Ayres Rock collection: 1. ‘Ayers Rock’ printed cloak; 2. ‘Rock all over’ printed top ; 3. ‘Spinifex’ printed dress; 4. ‘Spinifex’ printed dress.exhibit at London’s Fashion and Textiles Museum in 2003. It’s from this collection that many of her donation pieces to the Powerhouse come .
“Zandra is an incredible textile designer and pattern cutter,” says Leong. “She’s far too modest when she speaks about herself. She has revolutionised the way we cut our clothes. The way she cuts her clothes and designs her textiles is this interdependent relationship between both, which is difficult to achieve. She makes it look effortless but of course it requires great skill.”Rhodes takes offence at the idea that fashion has no place in a gallery. ”That’s so mean!” she exclaims.
Dressed head-to-toe in vibrant colour – a mustard yellow dress burnished with peppy florals, oversize costume jewellery and hot pink hair that offsets her green eyeshadow – Rhodes looks, and sounds, like someone in the absolute prime of her life.
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