Bruno and Hazel Benini commercial ephemera and photographs in various formats
Object No. 2009/43/1-9
Collection, photographs (prints, contact sheets, colour transparencies, black and white negatives), designs, newspaper clippings and other material, most photographs by Bruno Benini, collection documents Hazel Benini's window and display work for Hicks Atkinson (1959-1963) and Sportsgirl stores (1963-1967), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1959-1967
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Summary
Physical Description
Collection, photographs (prints, contact sheets, colour transparencies, black and white negatives), designs, newspaper clippings and other material, most photographs by Bruno Benini, collection documents Hazel Benini's window and display work for Hicks Atkinson (1959-1963) and Sportsgirl stores (1963-1967), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1959-1967. Includes photographs of window displays designed by Hazel Benini and other designers (shoe displays), black and white photographs of Hicks Atkinson store at the time it was closing down, sequences of fashion shots by Bruno Benini for Sportgirl, at least one showing Hazel Benini working behind the scenes. Some Sportscraft items also contained within this series.
HISTORY
Notes
Sportsgirl was established in Melbourne [in the 1940s-1960s?] as a youth brand and fashion outlet for Sportscraft, the iconic fashion brand founded by Russian immigrant Wolf Bardas as Sportleigh in 1914. Sportsgirl launched into Sydney in 1960 with the opening of a store in Double Bay, then a flagship store in Pitt St in the CBD Bruno Benini was born in Massa Marittima, Italy in 1925, arrived in Australia in 1935, and died in Melbourne in 2001 Hazel Benini nee Craig was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1930, arrived in Melbourne in 1958, and died in Melbourne in 2021
SOURCE
Acquisition Date
19 June 2009
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