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PRUE ACTON, OBE
Artist and fashion designer

She's known as Australia's 'golden girl of fashion', but Prue Acton describes herself as "an artist who chooses to work in the field of fashion".

She originally intended to become a professional artist, but after her move into fashion in the early Sixties she rapidly became known as one of Australia’s top designers and her subsequent international success meant that her art career was put on hold for almost thirty years.

Prue was born in at Benalla, Victoria and educated the Firbank Anglican girls' grammar school in Melbourne. Between and she completed a Diploma of Art majoring in textiles at RMIT, graduating in Later that year, with the help from her parents, Prue established her own fashion design business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Fortunately, she was fully supported by and in good company with her parents, who were both successful business people:

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