Bianca Spender: Growing Up as Carla Zampatti's Daughter (Part 1)

What's it really like growing up as the daughter of one of Australia's most iconic fashion designers? This is Part One of a Two-Part conversation. Bianca Spender sits down with marie claire Australia editor Georgie McCourt to talk about growing up under Carla Zampatti, discovering she was dyslexic, working in the family business as a child, and the four years she spent in Paris proving herself before finally joining, then leaving, the family label to build her own. Part two, out now, covers Bianca's creative process, her aesthetic, two skin cancer diagnoses, losing her mother, and living with grief. Chapters: 00:00 Bianca Spender on Carla Zampatti's death: “the perfect ending” 02:04 The masking tape down the middle of her childhood bedroom 03:47 Discovering dyslexia across three generations of her family 06:15 Growing up in the “School of Mum” with Carla Zampatti 08:22 Working in the family fashion business from age nine 10:54 What she understood about her mother only after becoming a parent 14:46 Mum guilt and running a business as a mother 22:38 The “market decides” trial: earning her place in the family label 28:30 Launching her own namesake fashion label Subscribe to watch more conversations from Marie Claire's You're Gonna Want to Hear This on YouTube 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@marieclaireau 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/youre-gonna-want-to-hear-this/id1849312864 Listen on Spotify: https://o