BETTY
Tran
Amidst a family who submerge themselves in textiles
and manufacturing services to numerous international
and Australian fashion labels, Betty Tran also finds the
time to design her self titled label.
Inspired by strength, passion and love, embodied in the
modern woman, Betty’s inspiration is to create timeless,
functional, versatile and quality pieces that empower
women to look and feel great about themselves. Betty’s
attention to detail is applied to each silhouette in the
collection. An appreciation for comfort is also reflected
through her choice of natural fabrics such as silk.
Betty was only five years old when she began to help
her mum. She helped her doing the orders and basically
grew up tailoring with her mother. At eight she never
thought she’d be where she is at 25 years old; despite
inheriting tailoring by blood, she never really wanted to
work with clothes.
When Betty left Vietnam seven years ago, she joined
the Australian workforce to help pay bills. Betty had
to learn English quickly and it was the ‘doer’ attitude
she inherited from her mother that got them by, as she
worked with the likes of Pierucci, Morrison and Aurelio
Costarella.
Betty’s mother has been her inspiration. “My mother is
a doer. She taught herself how to sew and she did it with
such dedication, passion and commitment and that’s
how I grew up, seeing my mum like that,” said Betty.
Betty watched her mother stay up till 4am to finish an
order because she gave her word to a customer. Betty
had inherited that exact same committed attitude from
her mother. “I’ve watched her way of working my whole
life and that was in my blood as well. She probably
works 10 times harder than I do now, but it was a natural
progression for me, to become a doer.”
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