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LouieNote from the Editor on Gloria Smythe (Mortimer Dunn) (LINK)
September 19th 2007 16:34
I had the pleasure of meeting Gloria Smythe for the first time at Australian Fashion Week in 2006. I was just one of the Designers eagerly awaiting the stream of interested International buyers we had all been promised, and Gloria picked me out of the crowd.
I look forward to my afternoons with Gloria, sharing the trials and tribulations of my life as a Designer, Stylist and Journalist, as a management consultant in IT, as a young woman in a mans world - hearing the advice of this wisest oracle and in constant awe of the amazing woman that sits before me who honours our time together with coffee and biscuits.
Whenever I leave Gloria’s home, I leave always with more and more vivid and diverse memories since the last visit, consistently reflecting a woman of great courage: dedicated, knowledgeable, always ready to share her skills with others; of a loyal person who is both kind and thoughtful, and whose deeds are many but always silent; of a dear teacher whose infectious enthusiasm engulfs us all, even when we can not quite keep up with her; of
a woman who harbors no resentment; of a woman who, in a mans world, showed
amazing courage while bravely facing her future.
It is not enough to say that in the miles across the ocean from Gloria she is greatly missed; her work, her talent, her knowledge, her very presence that has enriched the fashion and sporting industries immeasurably in countless ways, now humbly enriches mine.
Lest we forget those incredible individuals in our community today who are still with us. How could we lose them in the clutter of the generation of designers strutting down the catwalks of Fashion Weeks and splashed across pages of Google or MySpace and wait to pay tribute to them only on their passing.
Gloria has been nominated as Senior Australian of the Year.
I look forward to my afternoons with Gloria, sharing the trials and tribulations of my life as a Designer, Stylist and Journalist, as a management consultant in IT, as a young woman in a mans world - hearing the advice of this wisest oracle and in constant awe of the amazing woman that sits before me who honours our time together with coffee and biscuits.
Whenever I leave Gloria’s home, I leave always with more and more vivid and diverse memories since the last visit, consistently reflecting a woman of great courage: dedicated, knowledgeable, always ready to share her skills with others; of a loyal person who is both kind and thoughtful, and whose deeds are many but always silent; of a dear teacher whose infectious enthusiasm engulfs us all, even when we can not quite keep up with her; of
a woman who harbors no resentment; of a woman who, in a mans world, showed
amazing courage while bravely facing her future.
Gloria Smythe today at her own Bondi Beach
It is not enough to say that in the miles across the ocean from Gloria she is greatly missed; her work, her talent, her knowledge, her very presence that has enriched the fashion and sporting industries immeasurably in countless ways, now humbly enriches mine.
Lest we forget those incredible individuals in our community today who are still with us. How could we lose them in the clutter of the generation of designers strutting down the catwalks of Fashion Weeks and splashed across pages of Google or MySpace and wait to pay tribute to them only on their passing.
Gloria has been nominated as Senior Australian of the Year.
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