By Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia
08:27 12 Jun 2023, updated 08:28 12 Jun 2023
Collette Dinnigan has shuttered her eponymous homewares shop in New South Wales’ Southern Highlands, barely a year after it first opened its doors.
The store was located in the historic Post Office in Mittagong and sold artisan fragrances, candles and homewares.
According to PS Sydney, the fashion designer set up her boutique as an ‘experiment’, but had struggled finding staff to man the shop and was often spotted behind the counter herself.
She will continue to sell her hand-printed Belgian linen curtains, scented candles, ceramics and cushions made from her exclusive archival fabrics and antiques online.
Dinnigan and her husband Bradley Cocks run luxury rental properties on the North and South coast, as well as Bowral in the Southern Highlands.
The designer shocked the fashion world in 2013 when she closed her Sydney, Melbourne and London stores.
Dinnigan later explained that she she made the decision as her work was taking a toll on her personal life, and that she wanted to spend more time with her husband and her two children, Hunter and Estella.
She previously spoke to Daily Mail Australia about the major life change, and how it altered her home life for the better.
‘You can’t do nine to five in fashion,’ she revealed.
‘It’s all encompassing. But I can control it now. I’m able to spend school holidays with my family rather than having to be in Paris for shows.’
In 2020, Dinnigan sold two of her Paddington holdings for a combined total of $4million just days after listing each property.
She then purchased a $2.85million cottage in Bowral in 2022.