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Perry's designs have been featured on front covers of popular magazines such as ''[[Vogue Australia]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar|Harper's Bazaar Australia]]'', ''[[Marie Claire]]'', ''[[InStyle]]'', and ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald|Good Weekend]]''.

Perry is the longest serving cast member of ''[[Australia's Next Top Model]]'', having appeared as a judge for all ten seasons. Besides that, heHe has also been a judge on ''[[Asia's Next Top Model]]'' and hosted ''[[The Real Housewives of Melbourne]]'' Reunion.

Perry was born as Alexandros Pertsinidis and grew up in a migrant, working-class family in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lambert |first1=Catherine |title=Australian designer to the stars Alex Perry talks about his 26-year marriage, career success and those damn sunnies |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/australian-designer-to-the-stars-alex-perry-talks-about-his-26-year-marriage-career-success-and-those-damn-sunnies/news-story/e604e138f548c6f1695232acc2dc02bd |access-date=20 August 2018 |work=Herald Sun |date=17 August 2013}}</ref> His father is a Greek immigrant and his mother was born in [[Australia]] of Greek immigrant parents, though he Anglicizedanglicized his name to Alex Perry.<ref>{{cite news | title =Alex Perry | publisher =ABC | date =2 December 2010 | url =http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/3082429.htm | access-date =10 April 2012 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130611110322/http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/3082429.htm | archive-date =11 June 2013 | url-status =dead }}</ref> He has an older brother named [[Lee Perry (voice actor)|Lee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/transcripts/article/-/18180700/alex-perry/|title=Alex Perry|date=27 July 2013 }}</ref>

In 1992, Perry launched his brand from a studio in suburban Kensington, creating gowns, corsets and sheaths.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kroslakova |first1=Katarina |title=Alex Perry on Australian fashion industry pitfalls and overseas success |url=https://www.afr.com/brand/luxury/alex-perry-unpinned-20160805-gqmd34 |access-date=20 August 2018 |work=[[The Australian Financial Review]] |date=2 September 2016}}</ref> Perry's gowns were quickly acclaimed. ''Vogue Australia'' was the first to feature his jeweled corsetssheaths and glamorousjeweled sheathscorsets in their main fashion shoot. This was Alex's first editorial shoot, and the gowns photographed became his signature style afterwards. Since that time, Alex Perry gowns have ongoingly been featured repeatedly on the covers of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar|Harpers Bazaar]]'', ''[[Marie Claire]]'', ''[[InStyle Australia]]'', ''Madison'', and ''Grazia Australia''.