"That encounter at lunch was a breakthrough"

This week's guest of our segment on the new Italian immigration to Australia is 31-year-old Giorgia Chierici, originally from the province of Como.

Source: SBS Italian

Giorgia has always worked in the fashion world. She arrived in Sydney in 2011 with a working holiday visa. A chance meeting at a lunch turned out to be a turning point in her life and in her Australian career. Today, seven years later, Giorgia is the state manager for New South Wales and Victoria of a well-known Italian fashion brand retail outlets.