Clothes women wanted to wear: a new exhibition explores how Carla Zampatti saw her designs as a tracker of feminism
- Written by Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
Carla Zampatti middriff top and pants, 1971Photograph: Warwick LawsonThe late Carla Zampatti is celebrated in a splendid retrospective Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum. Planned well before the fashion designer’s untimely death last year, the unveiling of her legacy will be bittersweet to her many fans.
Zampatti is often referred...




