Collette Dinnigan
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"Collette Dinnigan" is an Australian based fashion designer. Born in South Africa, Dinnigan moved to New Zealand, then Australia, where she obtained work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She opened her own range in 1990, with the launch of a dry-clean only lingerie collection, and was the first Australian to launch a ready-to-wear collection, in Paris in 1995.

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It's much more the evening wear collection - lots of colours. Lots of pinks and greens and prints and it's a vintage kind of feel.

I don't feel that I've arrived, especially, ... But I'm very comfortable about where I am now. I do feel I've accomplished a lot.

I'd say it's very fresh and young but still with that ?rock chick' edge about.

[Only her one-year-old daughter, Estella, who made her fourth trip to Paris this time, might take some convincing.] She fell asleep five minutes before the show, ... What can you expect?

It's less exhausting than putting on a full show but I don't feel like I'm compromising because I've worked just as hard.