Article in SMH titled: Denim day and night: it's all in the jeans.
"Apart from a short course at the Parsons school in New York, she (Nicole Colovos) has no formal qualifications in design: she developed her eye while working as a stylist.
Now 36, she is the new designer for Helmut Lang, a label known for its minimalist, elegant style. She describes herself as a proud New Zealander who thinks of Australia as home. She spent 12 years in Sydney in what turned out to be a longish pit stop on the way to New York, where she worked on Harper's Bazaar.
She and her husband Michael started the label Habitual in 2002. "It was about taking denim, and elevating it, and pushing it round," she says. Then there were few upmarket denim labels. "We were trying to elevate the perception of denim," she says..."
W: http://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/denim-day-and-night-its-all-in-the-jeans/2006/05/16/1147545325921.html
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