It’s About Time

Desig ner Tamara Ralph talks about her fearless comeback, her surprise collaboration with Audemars Piguet, and the pure joy of designing couture

By Cherry Mui

SPOTLIGHT “It was never a question of coming back—it would be more of a question about when,” says Tamara Ralph, the designer and founder of her namesake couture label. Having previously been half of Ralph & Russo (yes, the couture brand behind Meghan Markle’s engagement dress), the Australian designer is no stranger to haute couture. A graduate of Melbourne’s Whitehouse Institute of Design, she made a strategic move to Europe in 2005 to start her career as a designer. “Growing up in Australia [in the 1980s and 90s], it was a very different industry there than it is now, as a luxury market and as a fashion market. So I always knew that I wanted to be in Europe, and moving to Europe was quite a definitive step. The European…

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