Adele Palmer

  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Palmer apprenticed in the fashion industry, studied at the McCabe Academy, and in 1969 opened a boutique, Artemus, South Yarra, Victoria under her own label. With her partner Rob Palmer, she sold nationally. Moving into denim, she was a principal of the label Jag Jeans and clothing. Jag also developed a market in the USA but returned to Australia in 1980. She retired after 1993.
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Citations

  • Jenny de Nijs (1 January 1986), 'Women as Designers in Australia’.

  • Sue Trethowan-Jones (2009), 'Gems of a Generation’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Lesley Sharon Rosenthal (1 January 2005), 'Schmatttes’.

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