Sheila Scotter

Sheila Winifred Gordon Scotter, AM, MBE (2 December 1920 – 6 April 2012) was an Australian businesswoman. She was a fashion designer and third editor of the Vogue Australia magazine. She also founded the Vogue Living magazine. She was famous for always wearing black and white clothing and leaving her hair silver. This earned her the nickname, the Silver Duchess. to parents Harold and Winifred. Harold was a former soldier who had fought alongside T. E. Lawrence and now worked for the Bengal railways. She had two brothers. From the age of 4 she boarded at St Swithun's School, Winchester, England, and saw her parents only once every four years, although she had more frequent contact with her grandparents.

After leaving school, Scotter entered the fashion world as a model, working for people such as Hardy Amies. columns in Melbourne Living from 1982). Her Bedside Cookbook was published in 1980. She was a panelist on the TV program Beauty and the Beast. Scotter’s 1998 memoir Sheila Scotter; Snaps, Stories and Secrets From My Life revealed a list of 24 other alleged former lovers, including Harold Holt, Sir Frank Packer (she was godmother to Packer's daughter Gretel), Sir Ian Potter, Sir Brian Murray, Sir Anthony Griffin, and Sir Robert Southey. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1992 in recognition of her fundraising for the arts.

Scotter died, aged 91, in Albert Park, Melbourne on 6 April 2012. At her request, she was buried in the Dandenongs near Melbourne, next to her friend and former lover, John Truscott.