Background
Her father died of cancer when she was seven.
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Poppy King
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King was educated at Lauriston Girls" School in Melbourne, and Wesley College, Melbourne.
Career
She is best known for her company Poppy Industries and the range of cosmetics available at Poppy Stores in Australia, during the 1990s. King started her own cosmetics company in 1991 at age eighteen. Poppy Industries mainly produced a wide colour range of opaque lipsticks.
The head office was located in Melbourne.
Within three years, the company had grown to be one of the biggest cosmetic companies in Australia. In 1998, after expansion into the United States. market, the company collapsed and went into receivership, then liquidation.
With further outside investment the company continued until 2002, when it was finally dissolved. In 1999, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission investigated allegations that Poppy Industries traded while it was insolvent, however the Commission later released a statement clearing the company of any wrongdoing.
King later launched a new brand called "Lipstick Queen".
King currently lives in New New York She wrote Lessons of a Lipstick Queen, published by Atria Books in August 2008. She has campaigned for the Australian Republican Movement.
