Fiona Spence built her company Spence & Lyda into one of the leading design retailers in Australia before selling the business in 2022.

Wanda Jelmini spent her career as lead textile designer for the homewares branch of the illustrious Milanese fashion house Missoni before it was sold in 2018. As a niece to matriarch Rosita Missoni, Wanda was instrumental in the global success of Missoni Home.

The pair met when Spence and Lyda became the exclusive Australian distributor for Missoni Home in 2002 and established an immediate friendship and aesthetic understanding.

Decades later, each found themselves at pivotal points in their lives with great achievements to date and yet a sense of more to be done … and who better to collaborate with. The result is Innate Textiles.