It's such a treat to listen to this beautiful interview with one of Australia's most important, most innovative and most inspiraitonal fashion figures.
Linda Jackson is an iconic designer who, with her friend and creative partner Jenny Kee, invented a new language for Australian fashion in the 1970s, inspired by Australia's native flora, fauna and landscapes.
Until then, we'd mostly looked outward, copying what Europe did. But Linda and Jenny shook that whole thing up, and the world took notice. In Sydney they engergised the arts scene, bringing fashion to the party, and collaborating with creative friends like Peter Tully and David McDairmid, who went on to become leading lights of the Mardis Gras movement. In Milan and Paris, they were photographed by Italian Vogue and made a big splash. In the US, they were key to Nieman Marcus's Australian Fortnight in 1986 and in London, three years later, to the V&A show Australian Fashion: The Contemporary Art.
Linda opened her Bush Couture studio in 1982. She stepped up the art aspect to her work, she began collaborating with indigenous women batik artists at Utopia Station.
This Episode is about culture and respect, and valuing original voices. It’s also, broadly, about craft and technique and the hands-on practice of making clothes. And it's the story of how an arty kid from Melbourne grew up to be one of the wildest style voices of her generation.
Music is by Montaigne http://www.montaignemusic.com.au/
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