Claudia Chan Shaw Presents

Back by popular demand, fashion designer, author and TV and radio presenter Claudia Chan Shaw is perhaps best known for her popular TV programs ‘Collectors’ and her subsequent book ‘Collectomania’. She leads the ‘Art Deco to Art Now’ tours to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Miami, Cuba and New York, sharing her love of Art Deco, history, art and design.

Lecture 1: Beyond the Little Black Dress –Chanel

Fashion is what’s in vogue, the latest trend. Fashion is ever changing. Join Claudia Chan Shaw to discover Chanel’s influence and the legacy of the Little Black Dress, showing that, as Chanel once said, “Fashion fades, only style remains.”

Lecture 2: Florence Broadhurst: the Enigmatic Design Legend

Now a global phenomenon, Florence Broadhurst was the queen of reinvention, passing herself off as a French couturier and an English aristocrat. She returned home to Australia to revolutionise the design industry of Sydney in the 60s and 70s, only to have it all come to a terrible end.