<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>334790</docID> <postdate>2024-12-06 15:27:10</postdate> <headline>Fashion and media legend Maggie Tabberer dies at 87</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-334791" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241206173099644817-original-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>Fashion and television personality Maggie Tabberer has died aged 87. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <strong>Liz Hobday</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Pioneering model, fashion icon and media entrepreneur Maggie Tabberer has died aged 87.</strong></p> <p>"This morning we lost our beautiful mother and nanna," her daughter, author Amanda Tabberer posted on social media.</p> <p>"She was an icon in every sense of the word and we will miss her dearly… Along with the rest of Australia.</p> <p>"Rest in peace nanna. We love you to bits forever."</p> <p>With her strong features and confident gaze, Tabberer was effectively Australia's first supermodel.</p> <p>She began working with famed photographer Helmut Newton in the late 1950s on assignment for Vogue magazine.</p> <p>That was just the start as Tabberer went on to become a journalist as well as founding a fashion label and public relations company as well as creating several television shows.</p> <p>With her daily TV chat show Maggie, she won back-to-back Gold Logies in 1970 and 1971 for her television work.</p> <p>In the 1980s she became fashion editor of Australian Women's Weekly, an influential post she held for 15 years.</p> <p>She also founded the popular Maggie T clothing label, for women sized 12 to 24.</p> <p>Tabberer was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours.</p> <p>She is survived by her daughters, Amanda and Brooke.</p> </body>