As The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni put it: “Decades are like people. Some take up more oxygen than others.” Which makes the 1980s positively vampiric, suggests Sydney designer Gillian Khaw of the gaudy spectacle of politics and cultural peacocking that defined her childhood and made her swear off bad denim and big hair forever.
But don’t we all revile and later return with begrudging affection to our first beginnings, the question asked of the Handelsmann + Khaw co-founder who makes the ‘mea culpa’ confession of
