Allegra Spender's fashionista sister wants to make women feel free
Before her Australian Fashion Week show on Wednesday afternoon, designer Bianca Spender walked around St Barnabas' Church in Ultimo, where she had staged her catwalk, acknowledging the names of every guest she had invited.
'I really wanted to feel present in the show,' she said. 'I've never had a wedding, but people tell me it's similar – you spend so long planning this big moment and then it flies right by you.'
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