Alannah Hill

Alannah Hill (born 1963) is an Australian fashion designer, well known in Australia and internationally for her "girly chic" fashion label and boutique chain. [Wells, Rachel: [http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/running-up-that-hill/2006/12/21/1166290681822.html Running up that hill] , "The Age", 28 December 2006.]

Hill was born in Geeveston, Tasmania, but spent much of her childhood in the coastal town of Penguin, where her parents owned a milk bar, Hill and her mother worked in the milk bar while her father sold insurance. She moved to Hobart at 15, running away to join Ashton's Circus, and at the age of 17, moved to Melbourne, Victoria. [ [http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/allanah_hill.html Significant Women: Alannah Hill] , Government of Tasmania.]

Hill worked in Melbourne as a stylist on film and video clips, eventually landing a small role in the 1987 film "Dogs in Space" starring Michael Hutchence. Whilst waitressing in a cafe, she was offered a job at a fashion store (Indigo) in Chapel Street, South Yarra, where she worked for fifteen years, before starting her own fashion design label in 1996. [ [http://www.vogue.com.au/fashion_central/people/designers/alannah_hill Alannah Hill] , "Vogue".]

She opened her first boutique in 1997, and currently has ten stores in Australia: four in Melbourne, four in Sydney, one in Perth and one in Brisbane. Her fashion range is also available at David Jones department stores nationally. In 2006 Hill opened a store in Auckland, New Zealand.

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* [http://www.alannahhill.com.au/ Alannah Hill official web site]
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