Meet Catherine Colubriale

My story

From the age of five, all I wanted to do was play and design with my mum’s dressmaking tools and fabrics. She sewed to make a living, and I would sit by her side absorbing everything. She tried to protect me from such laborious work, but she always told me: “To design something beautiful you have to be dedicated and love what you are doing.”

At fifteen I started working to fund my fashion studies, and while studying I was already making dresses for friends and family and supplying retail stores. At twenty-one I moved out of my bedroom and opened my first atelier in Kingsgrove.

Travel to Italy, France, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Sweden, America, Canada and many more places taught me to embrace every culture, and those colours, textures and shapes find their way into everything I create.

Today, in my atelier in Dulwich Hill, I design for women who want to feel confident, express themselves and stand out. When I design, I’m in a headspace no one else can enter. It is where I feel most free.