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Her designs were stocked by barneys new york and harvey nichols in london and hong kong. Australian designer collette dinnigan to close her business. Iconic fashion designer collette dinnigan has been creating beautiful clothing for more than 25 years. The large and handsome book obsessive creative, published by harper design an imprint of harper collins, relates the highs and the few lows over the last 20 years, since dinnigans mother died, but left her daughter a bohemian spirit hard graft, as the designer started to show in paris, and successful staging of collaborations with friends such as baz luhrmann and his.
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