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Sydney Morning Herald
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
50 Shades of Green: Anthony Pratt slays the Met Gala red carpet
We can now say with confidence that cardboard-box recycling billionaire Anthony Pratt at the Met Gala was easily this weekend's most successful Green. Not because of any affiliation with the troubled environmental political party, but because the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries served an arresting, green-themed look at the Met Gala fundraiser that we describe as clashing in confidence. CBD loves a clashing print (heck, any sort of clash is good copy). So we were pleased to see Pratt's suit teamed with the green theme and heroes the 'Pratt 100% Recycled' decals that were such a feature of last year's Met Gala Willy Wonka pink suit. Pratt repeated the mix of lime, green and lemon decals on a bright green shirt and tie, in contrasting styles so bold they risked triggering our photopsias. Pratt offset his two-piece suit with a dark-green hat and cane. But he swapped out last year's Balenciaga runners for more sensible Brooks sneakers, potentially sourced from the House of Rupert Murdoch. Throwing together the fashion fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – world's silliest 'look at me' event – with a billionaire's concept of fashion invokes CBD trepidation. Clearly, the event's theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' was a tricky and ultimately impossible brief for the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries, who went solidly for 50 Shades of Green despite his personal colour palette not screaming 'spring'. Pratt, who now has a US green card and has an honorary title of Kentucky Colonel, was accompanied by his sister and Visy deputy chair Fiona Geminder. The family wealth is put at $25 billion. The pair's last big social function mentioned in dispatches was a lavish Visy party in March for the packaging industry and clients in a massive marquee at the Pratt family mansion of Raheen in Melbourne's Kew. Air Supply and DJ Mark Ronson performed, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flew all the way from Sydney just to give a short speech. Peter Dutton was an apology.
The Age
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
50 Shades of Green: Anthony Pratt slays the Met Gala red carpet
We can now say with confidence that cardboard-box recycling billionaire Anthony Pratt at the Met Gala was easily this weekend's most successful Green. Not because of any affiliation with the troubled environmental political party, but because the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries served an arresting, green-themed look at the Met Gala fundraiser that we describe as clashing in confidence. CBD loves a clashing print (heck, any sort of clash is good copy). So we were pleased to see Pratt's suit teamed with the green theme and heroes the 'Pratt 100% Recycled' decals that were such a feature of last year's Met Gala Willy Wonka pink suit. Pratt repeated the mix of lime, green and lemon decals on a bright green shirt and tie, in contrasting styles so bold they risked triggering our photopsias. Pratt offset his two-piece suit with a dark-green hat and cane. But he swapped out last year's Balenciaga runners for more sensible Brooks sneakers, potentially sourced from the House of Rupert Murdoch. Throwing together the fashion fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – world's silliest 'look at me' event – with a billionaire's concept of fashion invokes CBD trepidation. Clearly, the event's theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' was a tricky and ultimately impossible brief for the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries, who went solidly for 50 Shades of Green despite his personal colour palette not screaming 'spring'. Pratt, who now has a US green card and has an honorary title of Kentucky Colonel, was accompanied by his sister and Visy deputy chair Fiona Geminder. The family wealth is put at $25 billion. The pair's last big social function mentioned in dispatches was a lavish Visy party in March for the packaging industry and clients in a massive marquee at the Pratt family mansion of Raheen in Melbourne's Kew. Air Supply and DJ Mark Ronson performed, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flew all the way from Sydney just to give a short speech. Peter Dutton was an apology.
The Age
30-04-2025
- Business
- The Age
Anthony Pratt pledges $8 billion for US as he visits Trump at White House
Washington: Australian packaging magnate Anthony Pratt, whom Donald Trump once branded a 'red-haired weirdo', has pledged to invest billions in American manufacturing as he visits the US president at the White House. Pratt said the planned $US5 billion ($7.82 billion) investment would create 5000 manufacturing jobs across the US in the rust-belt states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and in Arizona in the southwest. 'To make America great again we need to make in America again,' he said. 'That's why I'm proud to support the president's call to reindustrialise America and again make the US the manufacturing powerhouse of the world'. The Visy and Pratt Industries chairman is among several business leaders due to attend an event with Trump at the White House on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) as the president marks the first 100 days of his second term. Pratt is a permanent US resident and has based himself in New York since last year. Pratt Industries has 70 US factories making recycled paper and cardboard boxes for customers such as Walmart, Home Depot and the US Postal Service. The 65-year-old, originally from Melbourne, has cultivated a relationship with the president and became a member of his Mar-a-lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. As part of the investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, it was claimed that Trump shared potentially classified information about America's nuclear submarine fleet with Pratt during conversations at Mar-a-lago in April 2021. The information reportedly included the number of nuclear warheads carried by the boats and how close they could get to Russian counterparts without detection. When the claims were published in 2023, Trump called it 'fake news' and said he never discussed submarines with 'a red-haired weirdo from Australia'.
Sydney Morning Herald
30-04-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Anthony Pratt pledges $8 billion for US as he visits Trump at White House
Washington: Australian packaging magnate Anthony Pratt, whom Donald Trump once branded a 'red-haired weirdo', has pledged to invest billions in American manufacturing as he visits the US president at the White House. Pratt said the planned $US5 billion ($7.82 billion) investment would create 5000 manufacturing jobs across the US in the rust-belt states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and in Arizona in the southwest. 'To make America great again we need to make in America again,' he said. 'That's why I'm proud to support the president's call to reindustrialise America and again make the US the manufacturing powerhouse of the world'. The Visy and Pratt Industries chairman is among several business leaders due to attend an event with Trump at the White House on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) as the president marks the first 100 days of his second term. Pratt is a permanent US resident and has based himself in New York since last year. Pratt Industries has 70 US factories making recycled paper and cardboard boxes for customers such as Walmart, Home Depot and the US Postal Service. The 65-year-old, originally from Melbourne, has cultivated a relationship with the president and became a member of his Mar-a-lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. As part of the investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, it was claimed that Trump shared potentially classified information about America's nuclear submarine fleet with Pratt during conversations at Mar-a-lago in April 2021. The information reportedly included the number of nuclear warheads carried by the boats and how close they could get to Russian counterparts without detection. When the claims were published in 2023, Trump called it 'fake news' and said he never discussed submarines with 'a red-haired weirdo from Australia'.
