About Us

A Rockingham & Safety Bay local for 50+ years, Margie was a local business owner from 1997 when she started getting involved with her local community. While running a busy Cafe, Margie saw the opportunity to bring more people to Rockingham, so she founded the original Rockingham Mussel Festival to promote local businesses, the beautiful beaches, and the easy-going lifestyle in Rockingham. She could see how bountiful her community was and more importantly how people liked to connect & support one another. Other projects included Olive Oil making from Council verge olive trees and raising money for local charities through collecting excess lemons & oranges from her community to bake and sell outside her local supermarket, they sold out in 1 hour!

Born in NSW to Venetian parents, Margie started learning invisible hemming, basting, and cutting at an early age from her, highly sort after, tailor mother, who taught her the art of sewing. It was then shelved for 40+ years until she worked in the fashion industry and saw enormous amounts of ‘faulty’ items being returned to stores with easily fixable faults. This ignited her imagination in the many ways these items could be either repaired or repurposed, so Fashion Replay was born.

Margie’s futuristic thinking and creativity always found a unique and environmentally friendly way to ‘reinvent the wheel’ and give new life to textile waste in the aim of minimizing our unsustainable way of living and the vast amounts of textile waste that go to landfill every minute, hour, day, week and so on. She believes that if we have more knowledge about ‘What’ we are purchasing and ‘Why,’ we could make better choices. Imagine choosing your next textile item knowing how you will repurpose it when the time comes. The Textile Circular Economy movement is gaining traction all around the world with its main aim being to reduce landfill and reducing the never-ending piles going to overburdened Charity Shops. Margie believes this will be how we will shop in the future, and we need to start educating the new generation (& refresh some of the older generation too!) now.