Английская Википедия:Denise L'Estrange-Corbet
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Dame Denise Ann L'Estrange-Corbet Шаблон:Post-nominals (born Шаблон:Birth based on age as of date)[1] is a New Zealand fashion designer and businesswoman. She founded WORLD, a fashion label, in 1989 with her then husband, Francis Hooper.
Personal life
L'Estrange-Corbet published her autobiography, All That Glitters, in 2008, in which she discussed her childhood in London and her history of depression.[2] At the age of 3 her mother took her and her sister to England to escape an abusive alcoholic father, and she was raised in London.[3] She appeared in a Ministry of Health campaign aimed at reducing the stigma of suffering from depression.[1]
L'Estrange-Corbet and Francis Hooper are the parents of gossip columnist Pebbles Hooper.[4]
Honours and awards
In 1995 WORLD's designs won the Avant Garde category at the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Award, a $5000 prize.[3] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, L'Estrange-Corbet was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM), for services to fashion design.[5] She was promoted to Dame Companion (DNZM) of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to fashion and the community.[1][6][7][8] She won the Westpac New Zealand Women of Influence Award in 2017 in the category Art and Culture.[7] In 2015 WORLD became the first fashion brand to be endorsed by the United Nations.[3]
Controversy
In May 2018, online news platform The Spinoff criticised L'Estrange-Corbet's brand WORLD for selling imported clothes with a label attached saying "Made in New Zealand" in French, after she herself had made frequent criticisms of labour conditions of imported products.[9] The brand had not been rated by TEAR Fund's labour standards ratings scheme because of the claim all the products were made in New Zealand. L'Estrange-Corbet defended WORLD's practices, calling the story "gutter journalism" and a "beat-up",[10] and saying that the "clothing tags that say 'Made in NZ' are made in NZ, so there is nothing misleading about this".[11]
Publications
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