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Breaking down barriers, and making it look easy, is the Zimmermann way. They fast won a loyal following – smart, sartorially savvy women with an eye for quality fabrics and clever cutting.

Sisters Nicole and Simone Zimmermann began their creative and business partnership in 1991. Nicky, who had wanted to be a fashion designer from childhood, started the business single-handedly after working for just six months with a swimwear designer. She is the creative force who has overall design control and shapes the label's market positioning. Simone, who joined the business 18 months after Nicky's first tentative steps, takes charge of the day-to-day business demands. With a degree in fashion from East Sydney Technical College, Nicole manages the creative process while Simone, with her background in marketing, oversees production and sales.

Trained at the renowned design studio at East Sydney College - a launching pad for other Australian fashion luminaries including Akira Isagowa, Lisa Ho, Alex Perry and Michelle Jank - Nicky Zimmermann's swimwear designs are cut from a different cloth. She fuses fashion with functionality to create body-sculpting beachwear that transcends stereotypical swimming attire. As she has often remarked to reporters: "We just never understood why swimsuits and fashion had to be mutually exclusive."

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