Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Award winning designer sings praises of wool

LOCAL woman Fiona Kliendienst, owner of Tuscan Elegance, took out the professional section at The Australian Woll Fashion Awards with a wedding dress that she had designed for a friend.

Mrs Kliendiest has been committed for a long time to working with wool, and was last year named Rural Woman of the Year for her efforts in the development of fashion utilising wool.

As well as making singlets for shearers, she prides herself on stocking a number of wool evening gowns and wedding dresses at her couture evening wear store, Tuscan Elegance.

Like many other designers, she sings the praises of wool as ‘a beautiful product to work with, especially silk wool, which drapes really beautifully and holds the pleats in the dress really well’.

She says she designed the dress specifically for a friend’s upcoming wedding, with the idea of a dress that is for a quintessential country woman.




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