Trelise Cooper
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Trelise Cooper is one of New Zealand
's successful and internationally accomplished fashion designers. Her designs have featured in magazines such as Vogue
, Marie Claire
, Women's Wear Daily
http://www.wwd.com/wwd-publications/wwd/2004-08-11/ and InStyle and featured on the television series Sex and the City
. http://www.magazinenz.com/nz/destination/show.aspx?country=nz&unit=auckland&doc=62 Customers include celebrities Liv Tyler
, Miley Cyrus
, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10507124 Lindsay Lohan
, Stevie Nicks
, Suri Cruise, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10600735 Julia Roberts
, http://tvnz.co.nz/fashion-week/exclusive-interview-trelise-cooper-2991688 and The Pussycat Dolls. http://www.macleodagencies.com/trelise-cooper.htm http://www.breastcancercure.org.nz/corporate/patron/biography Trelise Cooper Ltd. exports to The United States
, United Kingdom
, Europe
, Asia
and Australia
, and has been awarded a Trade New Zealand Export Award for creating a successful export business. http://www.trelisecooper.com/thebrand.shtml
Cooper creates three clothing ranges - Trelise Cooper, Cooper by Trelise and Trelise Cooper Kids. She also produces Trelise Cooper Interiors, a fabric range made in association with textiles house Charles Parsons. Her signature fragrance ‘Trelise’ was launched late 2009. http://www.trelisecooper.com/master_frame_winter_10.html
The Trelise Cooper design business began in the early 1980’s, with her first boutique opening in 1985. http://www.trelisecooper.com/about.shtml There are now a number of Trelise Cooper flagship stores in cities throughout New Zealand
and Australia
, including Auckland
, Christchurch
, Sydney
and Melbourne
. http://www.trelisecooper.com/master_frame_winter_10.html The Trelise Cooper Kids Auckland
flagship store is known for its creative interior, winning the supreme award at the 2007 New Zealand
Retail Interior Design Awards. http://www.designtaxi.com/news.php?id=12127
Cooper shows her three ranges at New Zealand
Fashion Week
in shows that are often elaborately staged and marked by the use of celebrities, including Charlotte Dawson
, Keisha Castle-Hughes
and Petra Bagust. In March 2009 Cooper became the first New Zealand designer to stage a fashion show on board the cruise ship Queen Mary 2. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10629834
Cooper is regarded as a philanthropist through her generous support of charities. She is a patron of the Breast Cancer Research Trust http://www.breastcancercure.org.nz/corporate/patron and supports Habitat for Humanity. At 2009’s New Zealand
Fashion Week
Cooper initiated an onsite house build to promote this charity. http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/2566342/How-to-fashion-a-house She is also an environmental supporter, producing eco bags for supermarket chain Progressive Enterprises
. http://www.progressive.co.nz/1955/Countdown-Story/trelise-cooper-eco-bag-09 In 2004, Cooper was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
(MNZM) by the Governor-General on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to the Fashion Industry. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=25
She is married to Jack Cooper, a well known Australasian textile wholesaler who now volunteers his time to charity Habitat for Humanity.
In December 2005, Cooper had an intellectual property dispute with fellow New Zealand fashion designer Tamsin Cooper, http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/tabid/67/articleID/1517/Default.aspx objecting to Tamsin registering her name as a trademark. In July 2007, Trelise Cooper agreed to drop the suit and let Tamsin Cooper operate under her own name. http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00044.htm
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
's successful and internationally accomplished fashion designers. Her designs have featured in magazines such as Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...
, Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion." WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers,...
http://www.wwd.com/wwd-publications/wwd/2004-08-11/ and InStyle and featured on the television series Sex and the City
Sex and the City
Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
. http://www.magazinenz.com/nz/destination/show.aspx?country=nz&unit=auckland&doc=62 Customers include celebrities Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler
Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994...
, Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana....
, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10507124 Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11...
, Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...
, Suri Cruise, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10600735 Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
, http://tvnz.co.nz/fashion-week/exclusive-interview-trelise-cooper-2991688 and The Pussycat Dolls. http://www.macleodagencies.com/trelise-cooper.htm http://www.breastcancercure.org.nz/corporate/patron/biography Trelise Cooper Ltd. exports to The United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, and has been awarded a Trade New Zealand Export Award for creating a successful export business. http://www.trelisecooper.com/thebrand.shtml
Cooper creates three clothing ranges - Trelise Cooper, Cooper by Trelise and Trelise Cooper Kids. She also produces Trelise Cooper Interiors, a fabric range made in association with textiles house Charles Parsons. Her signature fragrance ‘Trelise’ was launched late 2009. http://www.trelisecooper.com/master_frame_winter_10.html
The Trelise Cooper design business began in the early 1980’s, with her first boutique opening in 1985. http://www.trelisecooper.com/about.shtml There are now a number of Trelise Cooper flagship stores in cities throughout New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, including Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
. http://www.trelisecooper.com/master_frame_winter_10.html The Trelise Cooper Kids Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
flagship store is known for its creative interior, winning the supreme award at the 2007 New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Retail Interior Design Awards. http://www.designtaxi.com/news.php?id=12127
Cooper shows her three ranges at New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Fashion Week
Fashion Week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...
in shows that are often elaborately staged and marked by the use of celebrities, including Charlotte Dawson
Charlotte Dawson
Charlotte Dawson is known in New Zealand for her roles as host of Getaway, How's Life? and Charlotte's Lists, in Australia as a judge on Australia's Next Top Model and as a host of The Contender Australia....
, Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes is a New Zealand film actress who rose to prominence at the age of eleven when playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the 2002 film Whale Rider...
and Petra Bagust. In March 2009 Cooper became the first New Zealand designer to stage a fashion show on board the cruise ship Queen Mary 2. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10629834
Cooper is regarded as a philanthropist through her generous support of charities. She is a patron of the Breast Cancer Research Trust http://www.breastcancercure.org.nz/corporate/patron and supports Habitat for Humanity. At 2009’s New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Fashion Week
Fashion Week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...
Cooper initiated an onsite house build to promote this charity. http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/2566342/How-to-fashion-a-house She is also an environmental supporter, producing eco bags for supermarket chain Progressive Enterprises
Progressive Enterprises
Progressive Enterprises Limited is an Australian owned company operating in New Zealand, and a subsidiary of the Australian retail group Woolworths Limited....
. http://www.progressive.co.nz/1955/Countdown-Story/trelise-cooper-eco-bag-09 In 2004, Cooper was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
New Zealand Order of Merit
The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order established in 1996 "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have rendered meritorious service to the Crown and nation or who have become distinguished by their eminence, talents, contributions or other merits."The order includes five...
(MNZM) by the Governor-General on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to the Fashion Industry. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=25
She is married to Jack Cooper, a well known Australasian textile wholesaler who now volunteers his time to charity Habitat for Humanity.
In December 2005, Cooper had an intellectual property dispute with fellow New Zealand fashion designer Tamsin Cooper, http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/tabid/67/articleID/1517/Default.aspx objecting to Tamsin registering her name as a trademark. In July 2007, Trelise Cooper agreed to drop the suit and let Tamsin Cooper operate under her own name. http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00044.htm