SYDNEY — Cue Clothes Co. founder and chairman Rod Levis has received the Australian Trend Laureate for Lifetime Achievement.
The announcement was made at a lunch at Bennelong restaurant on the Sydney Opera Home on Thursday, throughout the 2023 version of the Australian vogue business’s most prestigious awards occasion.
Eighty-one-year-old Levis based the midmarket vogue chain Cue Clothes in 1968. Right now, the corporate operates round 200 shops in Australia and New Zealand and is Australia’s largest native vogue producer, with the vast majority of manufacturing nonetheless performed onshore. With an eye fixed to supporting rising expertise, in 2013, the corporate acquired a majority stake in Australian designer Dion Lee and manages the enterprise aspect of the model. The award was accepted by Levis’ two kids, Cue Clothes Co. govt administrators Melanie and Justin Levis.
Established in 2008 by Australian Trend Week organizer IMG, in partnership with the New South Wales authorities’s tourism and occasions firm Vacation spot NSW, the awards acknowledge excellence in achievement throughout the business, in session with a large business panel.
Cue Clothes Co. founder and chairman Rod Levis, winner of the 2023 Australian Trend Laureate for Lifetime Achievement.
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Designer of the Yr was received by Christopher Esber, who made his Paris Trend Week runway debut on Sept. 28.
Lisa Havilah, chief govt officer of Sydney’s Museum of Applies Arts & Sciences, which operates the Powerhouse Museum, received the Carla Zampatti Award for Excellence in Management — an award launched in 2021 to honor Zampatti, who died in April that 12 months. The Powerhouse has staged plenty of vogue retrospectives and helps rising skills by offering studio area by its Artistic Business Residents Program. Present residents embody multidisciplinary designer Jordan Gogos and the First Nations Trend + Design collective.
Alix Higgins and Denni Francisco, who designs below the Ngali label, received the Rising Designer and Indigenous Designer classes, respectively, whereas Package Willow Podgornik, of the KitX model, received the Sustainable Designer award.
“The Australian Trend Laureate champions the perfect in Australian vogue and this 12 months’s winners showcase the range of expert creatives and professionals who’ve contributed to Australian vogue’s cultural and financial influence” mentioned Natalie Xenita, vice chairman, managing director of IMG Trend Occasions and Properties, Asia-Pacific.
