“I’m sort of a foot in each pond. I actually really enjoy the mental stimulation of being lawyer, I just really wanted to also tap into this more creative side that I felt I wasn’t fulfilling.”
At the private launch of She Lion in the city, she introduced a collection of self-designed handbags, kickstarting a career shift she eventually hopes will inspire others to pursue their dreams.
“I don’t think it could have gone any better,” she said.
Kate has always been “super interested in fashion” but her law career was going from strength to strength.
She honed in on an idea to practise fashion law in New York - unavailable in Australia.
She moved with her husband and passed the bar exam there.
All her cards were lined up before the Global Financial Crisis hit.
“We went to New York, and the GFC happened and my husband and I couldn’t get jobs, so we moved back,” she said.
Kate slotted back into Melbourne life but realised after two years on home turf she wanted “more involvement in fashion side of things”.
So she quit and embarked on a period of soul searching.
“My husband said: ‘Why don’t you explore what you want to do?’”
During this three months, she realised there was a gap in the market.
As a career woman she longed for handbags that could hold everything but be fashionable.
“I had a really good search and really couldn’t see much, and noticed there was a huge niche and thought ‘gosh, this could be great’,” she said.
To make her dream a reality, Kate did what was necessary and enrolled in courses to teach her the craft from scratch.
Kate still has a hand in the legal world as a part-time knowledge lawyer for a city firm.
As for her plan for the future?
“I’m very passionate about empowering women. It’s still a reasonably male dominated world in the corporate sector anyway.”
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