NATHAN
NATHAN
TRENT
TRENT
FASHION | ART | DESIGN | STYLE
Trent Nathan’s life has been a profoundly personal journey lived in the public eye, directing a powerful, creative fashion house and shaping the style of a nation from the 1960's onward. And still today, Trent continues to design, create, paint, write, and imagine with a clarity and vision more luminous than ever. Each day is devoted to capturing all that is, the seen and unseen, the delicate, the profound, the moments that shape a life.
The forthcoming book and retrospective are designed and curated by Australian creative director and editor Coty Farquhar. Together, they bring the many chapters of a living archive into the present moment, drawing on Trent Nathan’s extraordinary body of work and re-presenting it for the now.
This is a real-time journey documenting an unfolding creative process: exploring vast archives, shaping a unique publication in both hardcover and digital formats, and developing a major Australian retrospective. It honours a lifetime of creativity while allowing Trent Nathan’s work, at 86 years of age, to continue breathing, evolving, and speaking to the NOW.
“Each chapter of a long creative life asks for reinvention. I’ve changed many times, and I respect that evolution, it’s the only way to stay truthful to the work.” TRENT NATHAN AM
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The forthcoming...
TRENT NATHAN BOOK
Over 300 pages...Hardcover and Digital Editions (in development)
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A RETROSPECTIVE
TRENT NATHAN AM
AUSTRALIAN FASHION
LIFE, STYLE, ART, FASHION... 1961 to PRESENT
A pioneering Australian fashion designer
Created & Curated by Coty Farquhar
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CREATIVE
SPIRIT
Trent Nathan AM is a cornerstone of Australia’s fashion and design history. A visionary whose work elevated Australian style onto the national stage, Trent built a design language defined by craftsmanship, creative flair and sophistication, with classic, sophisticated, and wearable fashion. Now, in the later chapter of his life, he expands that language through painting, writing, and spiritual reflection, creating a rare and powerful bridge between fashion, art, and the human spirit.
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Behind the book, the digital edition and the retrospective...
COTY FARQUHAR
“To be asked by Trent Nathan to capture the story of his life feels nothing short of magical. Timing in life is everything, and together, through mutual respect and emotional truth, we are creative partners in this extraordinary project, pouring our ideas into it week by week. It allows me to work with his extraordinary life, fashion archives, artworks, and his creativity, revealing it in ways that feel deeply alive and modern. This wonderful project lights up my own heart every minute I am working on it, and I hope, when it is finished, it will light up yours too.” Coty Farquhar
ABOUT COTY FARQUHAR
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 industries, Coty Farquhar’s career spans editorial, creative direction, visual art and storytelling, brand development, elite photographic styling across all genres, fashion, interiors, decoration and design for both private residences and corporate clients. She is also owner and director of Farquhars...Makers & Restorers of Fine Furniture, a family business renowned for traditional craftsmanship, bespoke furniture and restoration.
From her early career with Vogue Living and Vogue Entertaining Guide in the 1980s, through the decades that followed as a Fashion and Beauty Editor, photographic stylist, curator, creative director, visual storyteller and publisher of her own digital publication, Styling Magazine Australia, read by millions around the world, Coty has developed a distinctive creative language shaped by a lifetime immersed in fashion, art, interiors, craftsmanship, photography and design.
Today, she brings this refined depth of experience, together with a deeply intuitive, creative and historically informed perspective, to the Trent Nathan book, archive and retrospective project.
