Alannah Hill is a designer, author and stylist. For seventeen years she was the founder and creative director of the brand Alannah Hill, one of Australia’s most iconic fashion houses. In 2013 Alannah left her eponymous brand and in 2015 launched her new fashion brand, Louise Love. Alannah lives in Melbourne with her sixteen-year-old son and her beagle dog, Jack.
'Not since singer Marianne Faithfull published her bestselling,
no-holds barred biography, has a high profile woman’s memoir
had the power to move us to laughter and tears as Butterfly on
a Pin, the remarkable memoir of Australian designer Alannah
Hill. Butterfly on a Pin is empowering, entertaining, and
insightful. It resonates with readers both familiar and not with
Alannah’s fashion career, dealing with bigger subjects such as
family, estrangement, self-reinvention, and the limitlessness of
the imagination.'
*Better Reading*
'The book (Butterfly On A Pin) is like a multi-layered blanket of
stream of consciousness, enveloping you in its vivid tales and
gallery of characters. At times it feels as if you’re in a scene
from Charles Dickens with urchins aplenty and unspeakable mendacity
behind every door; only this is not fiction, it’s incredibly
real.'
*The Australian Woman's Weekly*
‘a beautifully written book’
*ABC Radio Sydney*
'Hill's raw intelligence and "dark absurd, slightly berserk sense
of humour" (a trait she attributes to her mother) blend in prose
that chops from free-rangingly florid, to astonishingly simple,
beautiful and poetic...It makes for a ripping, inspirational yarn,
this story she ached so long to tell.'
*The Age*
'Alannah Hill’s memoir is like her fashion creations —layered,
compelling and memorable.'
*The Herald Sun*
'Raw and real and funny and sad – I could not put this book down' –
Jane Kennedy
*Jane Kennedy*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
