City

Auckland

Specialty

New Zealand Order of Merit design,jewellery design,fashion designer

Introduction

Denise Ann L'Estrange-Corbet is a New Zealand fashion designer and businesswoman. She founded WORLD, a fashion label, in 1989 with her then husband, Francis Hooper.

L'Estrange-Corbet published her autobiography, All That Glitters, in 2008, in which she discussed her childhood in London and her history of depression.At the age of 3 her mother took her and her sister to England to escape an abusive alcoholic father, and she was raised in London.She appeared in a Ministry of Health campaign aimed at reducing the stigma of suffering from depression.

In 1995 WORLD's designs won the Avant Garde category at the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Award, a $5000 prize. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, L'Estrange-Corbet was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM), for services to fashion design.She was promoted to Dame Companion (DNZM) of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to fashion and the community.She won the Westpac "Women of Influence" award in 2017. In 2015 WORLD became the first fashion brand to be endorsed by the United Nations.
Publications
L'Estrange-Corbet, Denise (2008). All That Glitters. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand.

Denise L'Estrange-Corbet
Denise L'Estrange-Corbet
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