Rae Ganim

Rae Ganim graduated from the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong in 1974. She joined the central design team of the well-known Australian fashion company Prue Acton Designs Pty Ltd as fabric designer and buyer, before establishing Rae Ganim Designs in 1978 and producing her first fashion collection.

In 1980 Rae was joined in the business by her husband Anthony. They formed an award-winning dynamic team that over the next fourteen years, consolidated the appeal and innovation that became synonymous with Rae Ganim Designs.

The business grew in size and output until it was producing a total of four comprehensive collections a year for both women and children, with wholesaling distribution to 120 boutiques and department stores around the country and overseas. The company’s signature of bold Australian colour and pattern spread to encompass home textiles and product, furnishing fabrics, corporate dress and fine art applications.

Sadly, in 1994, Anthony died of cancer. Rae then chose to diversify the company’s design base and spread a new design influence into previously untried markets.

Today, Rae Ganim Design is a streamlined business successfully operating across a number of complementary and influential areas, with an increasing involvement in interior design, colour consultancy and home product. She is increasingly in demand as a design consultant on a wide range of projects which all have one thing in common, a desire for quality and excellence in interpreting colour and line in an Australian context.

Rae is represented in collections at the National Gallery of Victoria, The State Library of Victoria, The Museum of Victoria, Yulara Tourist Resort, Silvertons Development and the private collection of Mr and Mrs Malcolm Fraser.