Meet the Team

Introducing

Victoria Latu

Fashion & Style Expert

Victoria Latu is a Melbourne-based Fashion and Style Expert, the Founder of modern lifestyle brand, Talking-Shop, and regular Style Contributor to Channel 10’s morning show: Studio 10. Victoria is passionate about curating the best in fashion and lifestyle advice for Australian women seeking the latest in fashion and beauty trends, as well sharing the tools to achieve the ultimate confidence.

Jamie Chugg

Kmart Women’s Apparel Buyer

Jamie started her Kmart journey as a Casual team member while still at school. She then returned to the team as a Buying Assistant, following a gap year and stint in Canada, before moving into a Trainee Buyer position, and then to a Kmart Buyer where she has been for seven years. Jamie has worked across a series of categories in her Buying years - Menswear, Girlswear, Activewear & Accessories – but now calls womenswear home, where she’s loving the opportunity to transition the Kmart apparel ideas from paper to new and exciting product you see on hangers each season.

Blair Fisher

Kmart Design Manager, Forecast & Design

After 10 year’s designing women’s apparel and accessories in London for the UK’s largest retailer, Next, Blair fell in love with Australia and relocated to Melbourne to work as a Senior Designer for a series of Australian fashion brands. Blair also spent part of her career overseeing the product direction of womenswear and accessories, before moving to Kmart three years ago to become the Womenswear Design Manager. Blair leads a team of 17 super talented Designers across all of Kmart’s Women’s Apparel, Accessories and Beauty categories, and she is so passionate about great design not needing need to cost a fortune, which Kmart is proud to deliver.

Introducing

Victoria Latu

Fashion & Style Expert

Victoria Latu is a Melbourne-based Fashion and Style Expert, the Founder of modern lifestyle brand, Talking-Shop, and regular Style Contributor to Channel 10’s morning show: Studio 10. Victoria is passionate about curating the best in fashion and lifestyle advice for Australian women seeking the latest in fashion and beauty trends, as well sharing the tools to achieve the ultimate confidence.

Kate Davies

Kmart Business Manager, Apparel

Kate has an extensive international career across women’s and men’s apparel, footwear and accessories, having started her working life in planning before her passion for buying took over; before moving to Melbourne, Kate worked for a series of UK retail institutions including M&S and Next. Kate contributed her buying passion to some of Australia’s largest retail groups before arriving at Kmart close to four years ago, where she takes on the role as Business Manager of women’s innerwear: a world of comfort, comfort and more comfort!

Kenny McLaren

Kmart Design Manager, Forecast & Design

A long-term member of the fashion industry, Kenny’s career in fashion commenced at 16 years of age, starting out in a clothing store before working for some of the biggest global retailers including Next, Tesco and Zara. Kenny moved to Melbourne from London earlier in 2020 with his wife and two children, and commenced his role soon after as Kmart’s Design Manager for menswear, activewear and active general merchandise. Kenny is really excited to work with his team to bring on-trend ranges in great fabrics, with a great fit, to Kmart customers…all at amazing prices.

Introducing

Cindy Newstead

Fashion Stylist & Colour Consultant

Cindy Newstead is a pioneer of the personal styling industry; Cindy is the Director and Head Stylist of Style by Cindy - a suite of expert personal stylists based in Melbourne – with over 20 years of expert stylist experience servicing women and men across the country. Cindy’s expertise also span colour consultancy, allowing her to identify the most suitable colour for individual colour characteristics.

Toyah Perry

Kmart Trend Forecast Manager

Toyah is a proud member of the Kmart team as the Trend Forecast Manager. Prior to joining the Kmart team, Toyah spent 12 years working across the Design and Retail space in New York and Melbourne, and continues to channel her passion for Architecture, Fashion and Design.

Alexis Belcher

Kmart Designer, Forecast & Design

Alexis is an Innerwear specialist! Alexis works across women’s apparel and innerwear as part of her role at Kmart and has been doing so for the last 18 months. Prior to joining the Kmart family, Alexis spent many years working behind the scenes supplying designs for key Australian retailers.