The forthcoming book on the life of Trent Nathan AM and the future major retrospective, are designed and curated by Australian creative director, editor, and founder of Styling Magazine, Coty Farquhar.

With more than 45 years in the creative industry as an editor, visual artist, creative director, and designer, from her early career at Vogue Living and Vogue Entertaining Guide magazines in the 1980s, through the decades that followed as a fashion editor and beauty editor, photographic stylist, curator, visual storyteller, and publisher of her own digital magazine, 'Styling' (read by millions worldwide), Coty brings a deeply intuitive, creative, and historically informed perspective to this project.

Working closely together as creative partners, Coty and Trent are shaping a brand new and exciting body of work. Together, they are building not only the history of Trent Nathan’s remarkable fashion career and archives, but also the spirit of who he is today, still designing, still writing, and still creating. This is a real-time journey of creation: crafting a beautifully produced book in both hardcover and digital form, while developing a modern and major Australian retrospective.

Coty lives and runs her design studio in Bowral, NSW, at Retford Park, the historic country estate of Sir James Fairfax AC, also home to Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands Regional Gallery. Retford Park is a place of rare cultural beauty and incredible creative spirit. James Fairfax understood deeply the power of art and the enduring role creativity plays in shaping lives and enriching the world. In 2016, he gifted his historic home and magnificent gardens to the people, and to the National Trust (NSW), ensuring its legacy would continue as a place of lasting cultural and public significance.

Coty was invited by the National Trust seven years ago to design and curate a major creative art event in honour of Sir James Fairfax. She was also invited to run her design business from James Fairfax’s own private Studio/Archive building on Retford Park, and now from the historic cottages on the estate where she lives.  It is here that the Trent Nathan archives are held, and where this extraordinary book and retrospective are being created, within the quiet beauty of the Retford Park gardens.

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