Tuscan-born Melbourne-based fashion photographer, Bruno Benini took this fashion shot at Black Rock, a bayside suburb of Melbourne, Victoria in 1966. It is one of several thousand fashion images in the Bruno Benini photography archive (1950-2001) that is being acquired by the Powerhouse Museum with funding assistance from the Commonwealth Government's National Cultural Heritage Account. The photograph shows model Anne Hamilton wearing a dress created by Simona for Sportsgirl, the youth brand label and fashion outlet of Sportscraft, the iconic Australian fashion brand founded by Russian immigrant Wolf Bardas as Sportsleigh in 1914.

Anne-Marie Van de ven, Curator 2009

Print created for 'Bruno Benini: fashion images 1956-1976' exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Friday 12 February - Saturday 13 March 1999.

Photographic print, black and white, model Ann[e?] Hamilton wears Simona dress for Sportsgirl, location Black Rock, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1966

Photographer: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1966

User: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 1999

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