The daughter of Bettina Liano, one of Australia’s most famous jeans designers, has entered Sydney’s social scene.
Olympia Christou, one of the two daughters Bettina shares with ex-husband Roy Christou, gave a very spicy performance at a Calvin Klein Denim event on Thursday evening.
The brunette, a model and fashion designer herself, went braless in a see-through lingerie top.
She paired the sheer top with a pair of low-cut Calvin Klein ones jeansreminiscent of the iconic jeans her mother sold in the ’90s and ’00s.
Olympia celebrated the announcement of season six of Real Housewives of Melbourne with her aunt and reality series star, Gina Liano.
The model made her catwalk debut in 2018 during Australian Fashion Week and co-founded upcycled streetwear label Hydra Opia with designer Karla Laidlaw in 2021.
The daughter of Bettina Liano, 60, (pictured in 2010), one of Australia’s most famous jeans designers, has entered Sydney’s social scene
Olympia Christou, one of the two daughters Bettina shares with ex-husband Roy Christou, gave a very spicy performance at a Calvin Klein Denim event on Thursday evening
Olympia’s mother was famous at the turn of the century for the iconic jeans she sold through her eponymous label Bettina Liano.
Bettina, 60, started in the 1980s, opening Semper L’Unico in Toorak Village, Chapel Street and Melbourne CBD with her mother and two sisters.
She and her former husband Roy, whom she married at age 23, later launched her jeans label in 1989.
At its peak the label had eight stores in Australia, mainly centered around Melbourne and Sydney, but it later went into administration.
Bettina initially relaunched her business in 2012 after it first went into administration in 2011 and entered into a licensing agreement with Apparel Group in Sydney.
However, in February 2013, she closed all her Australian stores and opened one in Soho, Manhattan, and the company went bankrupt again that same year.
The brunette, a model and fashion designer herself, wore a see-through lingerie top
She paired the sheer dress with a pair of Calvin Klein low-rise jeans, reminiscent of the iconic jeans her mother sold in the ’90s and ’00s.
Olympia’s mother was famous at the turn of the century for the iconic jeans she sold through her eponymous label Bettina Liano
At its peak the label had eight stores in Australia, mainly centered around Melbourne and Sydney, but it later went into administration
The Italian-Australian designer was forced to liquidate her famous 24-year-old jeans brand, with Apparel Group taking over the Bettina Liano trademark.
She said at the time that a production slowdown left her with no more shares to sell before the summer of 2013, meaning her business was over by January 2014.
To add to her misery, Bettina was also ordered to pay more than $150,000 in bad debts to Apparel Group in May of the same year.
Apparel Group also took over the trademark of its spin-off brands O Jeans and T by Bettina Liano.
However, the designer later launched another eponymous label called BYBL (By Bettina Liano) in 2015.
“They may have bought the name, but they didn’t buy the woman,” she said at the time.
‘I’ve lost a lot of things, but I still have my arms, my legs, my brain. I can still design and that’s all I ever wanted to do.”
At the height of its popularity, Bettina Liano jeans were worn by stars such as Jennifer Hawkins, Ruby Rose, Helena Christensen, Elle Macpherson and Liz Hurley.
