She was known as fashion's 'It Girl' but this year Nadia Fairfax's birthday bash looked very different after her falling out with Kristin Fisher as host of famous faces stay away

Daily Mail​

23-04-2025

Nadia Fairfax's birthday parties have long been the talk of Sydney.
Known as the 'It Girl' of Australian fashion, her celebrations each year were once an eastern suburbs high society fixture with miles-long Who's Who guest lists.
But this year, Nadia has kept her 36th birthday bash low-key and nixed her annual hashtag 'PartywithNardy' as her tight girl group continues to shrink following her falling out with eyebrow queen Kristin Fisher.
Sharing several stunning photographs of the event to her Instagram on Tuesday, Nadia was all smiles as she celebrated with her nearest and dearest.
The event appeared to be garden party themed, with some guests seen dishing up delicious plates of food.
Everyone donned their best clothes as they enjoyed drinks inside Nadia's lavish home, before they moved the gathering out into the yard.
Other guests could be seen dancing up a storm.
Nadia was seen embracing her closest pals, but there were some very notable faces missing from her garden soirée.
PR guru Montarna McDonald was absent from the birthday celebrations, despite the 35-year-old once dubbing Nadia her 'partner in crime ' in a 2021 social media post.
The pair were so close that Nadia even met her financier husband Michael Wayne at Montarna's December 2018 wedding to ex-partner Nick Pitt.
Deborah Symond O'Neil also did not attend, despite inviting Nadia to her Sydney society husband Ned O'Neil's 40th celebration in May last year.
The Aussie Home Loans heiress, 36, was frequently seen running in the same girl group as Nadia which, at its peak, including faces like McDonald, Kate Waterhouse, Phoebe Burgess, Elliot Garnaut and Jasmine Yarbrough, among others.
Nadia was also a fixture at Deborah's 'mates-moon' following her wedding to Ned.
In June 2018, Deborah invited Nadia and other female friends onto her father John Symond's superyacht Hasna to celebrate her new married life.
But it seems their relationship may have cooled as Deborah was notably absent from Nadia's birthday celebrations this week.
Another high-society name who didn't attend the soirée was stylist Elliot Garnaut.
Nadia and Elliot, 34, were once attached at the hip and attended several events together, with Elliot styling the blonde beauty for her outings.
However, Elliot was nowhere to be seen in the images Nadia shared to her socials. Nor were Pilates queen Bernadette Fahey or heiress Lou O'Neil.
Hamilton Island owner Nicky Oatley also ran in the same circles as Nadia.
Daily Mail Australia understands Nadia even asked Nicky to be the godmother to her one-year-old daughter Cordelia just months ahead of her birthday party, but the honour was politely declined as Nicky doesn't consider her a close friend.
But the most notably absent face from Nadia's 36th was Double Bay eyebrow artist Kristin Fisher, with the pair suffering a very public falling out in 2021.
Sydney's elite social set was rocked by rumours the former best friends went their separate ways in the wake of Kristin's cocaine scandal that year.
Kristin, 39, was allegedly caught buying cocaine on July 17, 2021 after a drug dealer was pulled over by police for driving erratically in Bondi.
The cocaine drama went unnoticed by the media for months, before suddenly making headlines in September 2021.
Kristin and Nadia unfollowed each other on Instagram at about the same time, though it was unclear why.
When Daily Mail Australia contacted the women for comment, they quietly refollowed each other on the social media app.
Nadia also insisted she hadn't fallen out with Kristin - despite rumours of their rift being the talk of the eastern suburbs.
'What you're speculating is factually incorrect,' she said.
'Kristin and I have had a wonderful friendship over the years and I continue to wish her well throughout her current situation, and no doubt you'll hear the same from Kristin.
'I had no prior knowledge of the [cocaine] incident, and found out just like everyone else through the media.'
The most notably absent face from Nadia's 36th was Double Bay eyebrow artist Kristin Fisher, with the pair suffering a very public falling out in 2021
However, once the media scrutiny lifted, Kristin and Nadia once again unfollowed each other.
In March 2021, months before the cocaine scandal broke, Kristin served as a bridesmaid at Nadia's multimillion-dollar wedding to financier Michael.
Kristin's daughter Lila was a flower girl at the ritzy nuptials, which were held at a heritage-listed mansion in Sydney's Darling Point.
Documenting the occasion at the time, Kristin uploaded images of herself celebrating with Nadia, adding the caption: 'Our best friends' wedding.'
But in the weeks following the cocaine saga, Nadia and Kristin were untagged in each other's Instagram photos from the wedding.
On the evening of 17 July, 2021, Kristin was allegedly caught buying cocaine after her drug dealer was pulled over by police for driving erratically.
Kristin was convicted and fined $550 after she failed to appear in Waverley Court in September 2021, charged with possessing a prohibited drug and failing to comply with public health orders.
However, in October, she managed to convince the court to annul her conviction for cocaine possession, earning a six-month conditional release order and a stern warning from Magistrate Ross Hudson.