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From being the first Australian designer to show at Paris Fashion Week in 1996 to living a quieter life in the NSW Southern Highlands she calls home, Collette Dinnigan might have swapped the fast pace of fashion to focus on interiors and homewares, but that hasn’t slowed her down.

Her pivot from fashion hemlines to interiors has been seamless. When Dinnigan isn’t decorating and renovating her properties in Australia and Italy, she’s curating the namesake homewares collection she launched in 2021, travelling to Italy each year to add to the range. “I still work with Italian artisans for ceramics and napery, and it all interplays with my love of home and entertaining,” she says.

She has also introduce

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