Lillian Frank

Lillian Frank has died, age 92, as her family remembers her wielding influence through her hairdressing salon and charitable roles.

“Hairdressing was her love and what she made her living from,” Jackie said. I can do something’.” Frank also became known for her hats at Melbourne races. Fashion designer Alex Perry remembered Frank as “brilliant in real life” and a force in Melbourne fashion through hairdressing and the horseracing scene. “The thing about mum is people saw this flamboyant character who wore these hats to the Melbourne Cup and looked like she was publicity-seeking but in actual fact she had the biggest heart and wanted to make a difference,” daughter Jackie Frank said. Her first hairdressing salon was in the Melbourne CBD, before she opened a salon in Toorak in the 1960s, gaining a wealthy clientele and even styling the Queen’s hair during a Melbourne visit.

Lillian Frank, who has died aged 92, was a giant of Melbourne's social scene known for her hairdressing salon in Toorak, her charity work and her love of a ...

She had a very public life and I was often asked what’s it like growing up with Lillian Frank as your mum? A giant of Melbourne 's social scene, Lillian Frank, has died aged 92. She saw things through rose colored glasses.

Melbourne has lost one of its most iconic figures with the death at 92 of socialite, one-time columnist and celebrity hairdresser Lillian Frank.

“She saw things through rose colored glasses. Ms Frank said of the long-time Toorak hair salon owner, “to us she was mum, to my kids nani and the most spectacular selfless human being in the world with the biggest heart. “She lived life to the max, without any regrets and was forever grateful,” she wrote on Instagram.