Fashion Fusion

By Janice Breen Burns
Updated July 23 2012 - 9:13am, first published July 21 2012 - 3:00am
Roopa
Roopa

Roopa Pemmaraju's story is one the most intriguing in fashion's recent history but, for a while, it was doubtful she would ever get to tell it. One more rejection; one more crinkled nose - ''Roopa what …?'', ''Roopa who …?'', and she might not be sitting here now, chic and pretty in one of her own vividly printed silk blouse designs, ladylike with knees together, taking tea (green) on a creamy-pale couch in her very charming, very English-style Toorak apartment, talking about her world opening, finally, like an oyster.

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