Florence broadhurst biography

Risk-taker par excellence, style maven extraordinaire, her most exhilarating legacy is a design archive making waves around the world today. But this is where her legend begins. 

Born in in a remote rural corner of Australia’s Queensland, Florence’s death was a violent murder at the age of In between, she lived a series of vivid, fantastic lives. 

Charismatically fearless from word go, she spent the roaring Twenties singing across the Far East’s colonial reaches and ran a finishing school in Shanghai.

In London, she became “Madame Pellier”, a French couturier proud to dress the rich and famous. She moved back to Australia as an aristocratic English lady; an entrepreneur, society figurehead and landscape painter. 

With every incarnation Florence became somebody new - new hair colour, new accent, new history.

Even, on occasion, new name. At the age of 60 she did it again, launching in Sydney her defining venture - an internationally-successful, l