Sheila Scotter was a fashion designer and third editor of the Vogue Australia magazine.
15 Facts About Sheila Scotter
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Sheila Scotter was famous for always wearing black and white clothing and leaving her hair silver.
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Sheila Scotter was honoured for her journalism and her fundraising for opera.
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Sheila Scotter was born in Calcutta, India to parents Harold and Winifred.
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Sheila Scotter came to Australia in 1949, basing herself in Melbourne.
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Sheila Scotter was known for her radio programs and newspaper columns.
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Sheila Scotter was a panelist on the TV program Beauty and the Beast.
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Sheila Scotter was considered a formidable fund raiser for artistic and other causes.
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Sheila Scotter's trademark was the black-and-white garments she always wore throughout her adult life.
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Sheila Scotter married Geoffrey Batten-Pearce in London when she was 22, and Alan Ford McIntyre in Melbourne when she was 31.
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Sheila Scotter claimed to have had a 13-year affair with John Truscott.
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Sheila Scotter was engaged at one time to the actor Peter Pagan.
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Sheila Scotter was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 13 June 1970 in recognition of her services to journalism and commerce.
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Sheila Scotter was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1992 in recognition of her fundraising for the arts.
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Sheila Scotter died, aged 91, in Albert Park, Melbourne on 6 April 2012.