29 January - 4 February 2013 Issue: 448
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UK AUSSIES HONOURED IN AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDS n Long-serving milliner to the Queen and creator of the fascinator, Frederick Fox, was honoured in an Australia Day gala awards dinner hosted at Australia House.
Every year the Australia Day Foundation honours the remarkable achievements of Australians living and working in the UK through the presentation of the Australian of the Year in the UK and Young Australian Achiever of the Year in the UK awards. This year the Foundation named Frederick Fox, Australia’s milliner to Her Majesty The Queen for 34 years, as Australian of the Year in the UK. The Award was presented at a gala dinner held on Australia Day, 26 January. The evening marked not only an important night in recognising the work of Australians in the UK, but also in the history of the Foundation itself as it celebrated its 10th anniversary. Australia Day Foundation Director Bill Muirhead said he could not think of a more worthy recipient of the 2013 Australian of the Year in the UK award than Frederick Fox, considered one of Britain’s greatest and most distinguished milliners. “To have been milliner to Her Majesty The Queen for 34 years will be a record no other milliner will match. “When Hardy Aimes first saw Frederick Fox’s innovative designs he immediately recognised the brilliance of a true master craftsman.” Born in 1931 in Jerilderie in NSW’s Riverina, Fox’s design ambitions took him first to Sydney to train with top French milliner Henriette La Motte. Fox left for life in London at age 27, securing a job with Otto Lucas.
In 1964 he took over Langee, and consolidated his reputation as a brilliant designer. Fox first came to the Queen’s attention in 1968 when asked to create hats for the Queen’s tour of Chile and Argentina. It was the start of a partnership which would last over 34 years and result in the crafting of more than 350 of the Queen’s hats. Fox said of his time with the Queen: “I managed to survive 3 tailors, 4 dressmakers, 3 vendeuses and 2 designers and was able to give continuity to millinery for 34 years of our monarch’s remarkable reign.” Fox also designed hats for Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Anne, Diana the Princess of Wales, Princess Alice, The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Michael of Kent whilst continuing to design for a large international clientele including Hilary Clinton, Joan Collins and Barbara Cartland. He has worked on several films, including collaborating with film director Stanley Kubrick, designing the iconic white leather crash helmets and suits for the film 2001, A Space Odyssey. Fox is recognised as being the creator of the modern ‘fascinator’, after first designing and presenting it in his 1999 collection.
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PUBLISHING icon Ita Buttrose was named Australian of the Year in a ceremony in Canberra on Friday for her extraordinary and groundbreaking contributions in health and media. She is the National President of Alzheimer’s Australia and the Vice President Emeritus of Arthritis Australia. She raises awareness of breast cancer, HIV/AIDS and prostate cancer. Born in Sydney’s Potts Point, Ms Buttrose began her career as a 15-year-old copy girl at The Australian Women’s Weekly, before scoring a spot as a cadet journalist on the women’s section at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She was appointed women’s editor of the newspapers aged 23. But it was as founding editor of Cleo magazine that she shot to national prominence in the 1970s. Three years later she was appointed editor of The Women’s Weekly. In 1980 she became the first woman editor of an Australian metropolitan newspaper – the Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph, and later the Sunday Telegraph. In her acceptance speech Buttrose ...continued on p3
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