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Prue Acton was born on 26 April, 1943 in Australia, is an Australian fashion designer. Discover Prue Acton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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Prue Acton, OBE (born 26 April 1943) is an Australian fashion designer, often referred to as "Australia's golden girl of fashion" during the 1960s.
Prudence Leigh Acton was born in Benalla, Victoria and educated at Firbank Anglican Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne.
Between 1958 and 1962 she completed a Diploma of Art majoring in Printed Textiles at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
In 1963 Acton established her own fashion design business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and by age 21 she was turning over 350 designs a year and selling an average of 1,000 dresses a week through 80 outlets in Australia and New Zealand.
As her fashion business took off, Acton also began to develop her own range of cosmetics to complement the range.
She married Michael Charles Treloar in 1966.
On 19 September 1966 they had their first child, Tiffany Leigh Treloar and, a few years later, they had their second child, Atlanta Priscilla Treloar.
In 1967, she became the first Australia female designer to mount a show of her own range of garments in New York.
Acton also designed the Australian Olympic uniforms for 1980, Lake Placid, US); 1984, Los Angeles; and 1988, Seoul.
Acton initially wanted to become a traditional artist – a painter – before focusing on fashion.
"At 15 I went to RMIT; I was one of the youngest ever to go to RMIT."
Acton says about her art studies that led up to her fashion career, "And during that time I was making my own clothes and making clothes for friends and that's how I was making pocket money".
Right after graduating, Acton worked on clothing samples, and began her business.
At the start of her career, she wrote a fashion column for the journal Go-Set.
Acton was the first Australian female designer to show her own fashion range in New York.
Acton returned to painting in the 1980s.
She shifted her focus away from fashion because "it's all about making money, and I'm becoming far more interested in painting".
Acton found the art forms to be similar: "I don't think it makes any difference whether I'm painting or I'm a designer, it's about the art of what we do, of how the parts come together".
She attended life drawing classes at Swinburne College, and studied painting with Clifton Pugh and Mervyn Moriarty.
By 1982 the estimated world-wide sales of her designs were $11 million with garments sold in Australia, Japan, United States, Canada and New Zealand and her designs made under licence in America, Japan, and Germany.
From 1989, Acton held exhibitions with Clifton Pugh and the Dunmoochin Artists.