page_title: Kay Cohen
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Kay Cohen / Early life and education
context_page_description: Kay Cohen is an Australian fashion designer and business woman based in Sydney, Australia. Cohen has led a number of lingerie design brands, most notably as Founder and Creative Director of Pleasure State and as General Manager and Creative Director of Elle Macpherson's Lingerie label Elle Macpherson Intimates, also Cohen is known as the inventor of the Biofit uplift bra.
context_section_description: Cohen was raised on a farm and first discovered fashion at the age of 12. She attended Wellington Polytechnic (now Massey University) in nearby Wellington, majoring in Clothing and Textile design. After graduation, she qualified and continued as a lecturer at the school, instructing fellow Australian Fashion Designer Collette Dinnigan. The first 15 years of Cohen's career were spent designing fashion outerwear.
  Cohen later qualified with an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
caption: In her design studio Wellington, New Zealand
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