Trelise Cooper

Who is Trelise Cooper?

Trelise Cooper is a fashion designers from New Zealand. Her designs have featured in magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire, Women's Wear Daily, and InStyle and featured on the television series Sex and the City. Customers include Liv Tyler, Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Stevie Nicks, Suri Cruise, Julia Roberts, and The Pussycat Dolls.

Cooper creates three clothing ranges - Trelise Cooper, Cooper by Trelise and Trelise Cooper Kids. She also produces Trelise Cooper Interiors, a fabric range made in association with textiles house Charles Parsons. Her signature fragrance 'Trelise' was launched late 2009.

The Trelise Cooper design business began in the early 1980s, with her first boutique opening in 1985. The Trelise Cooper Kids Auckland flagship store won the supreme award at the 2007 New Zealand Retail Interior Design Awards.

Cooper shows her three ranges at New Zealand Fashion Week. In March 2009 Cooper became the first New Zealand designer to stage a fashion show on board the cruise ship Queen Mary 2.

Cooper is a patron of the Breast Cancer Research Trust and supports Habitat for Humanity. At 2009's New Zealand Fashion Week Cooper initiated an onsite house build to promote this charity. She is also an environmental supporter, producing eco bags for supermarket chain Progressive Enterprises. In 2004, Cooper was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the Governor-General on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to the Fashion Industry.