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grace expectations

All clothing is vintage and preloved.

“We all have a tremendous opportunity and, I would argue, obligation from our privilege, to raise our voices, ask questions, demand answers and align our purchases in solidarity with the young women who make our clothes.”

When it comes to first fashion memories, they don’t get much cuter than Grace Forrest’s. “I remember wearing matching OshKosh B’gosh overalls with my sister and rummaging under the mulberry tree all day,” she recalls. “We wore art smocks over the top to stop them from being stained but knew if a sneaky stain did get through, to just rub a green mulberry onto it.” Growing up in Perth, Western Australia, the daughter of mining magnate and billionaire philanthropist Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, Grace was part of a family whose attitude to clothing was surprisingly frugal – a philosophy passed down from her mother, Nicola, and her mother before her. “My mum really taught us to take care of our clothes and still wears pieces today from when we were kids,” Grace says. “My mum’s mother is an artist and always made us beautiful things growing up,

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