Vida Turner

  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Turner was a textile designer working from a studio in Queen Street, Melbourne. A report in the Adelaide news states she began the business at 19 years of age and by 1940 employed 35 women in Melbourne with a branch in Sydney. Amongst her employees was the fashion historian in the making, Marion Fletcher, later a curator at the National Gallery of Victoria
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Vida Turner
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  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)

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References [<ExternalResource: "youthful artist designs fabrics for the world." The News, Adelaide 20 March 1940, p.17 (illustrated).>, <ExternalResource: "Hand-printed designs." The Australasian 9 June 1945, p.16, (illustrated, photos by Helmut Newton)>, <ExternalResource: "new registrations." Vida Turner registers as V.J. Turner P/L formerly trading as R.M. and Vida J. Turner. 191 Queen St, Melbourne. The Argus. 18 February 1939, p.6.>] [<ExternalResource: "youthful artist designs fabrics for the world." The News, Adelaide 20 March 1940, p.17 (illustrated).>]