Trying on samples from her new collection on the morning of her marie claire photoshoot, fashion designer Bianca Spender asks a telling question. “Can I dance in it?” She is in her kitchen and twirling – a signature move, all fluid lines. While tailored, her blush-pink trousers have just enough swathe to twirl with her and the silk shirt melds to her form. There are nods all around from our crew. In sartorial storytelling, it doesn’t get more “Bianca Spender” than this.
Standing around the designer’s kitchen table in her two-storey Victorian terrace in Sydney’s Bronte, it’s clear the ethos that defines Spender’s
