Lee Lin Chin

Lee Lin Chin, broadcaster, was born in Indonesia and raised and schooled in Singapore, where in 1968 she began working in television and radio. After arriving in Australia in 1980 she worked as a translator of Chinese movies (she speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Fukien). Having worked with ABC radio in Darwin and Newcastle, she became a newsreader with the multicultural and multilingual public broadcast channel, SBS, in 1988. Although she is a very private person and reticent about her personal life and history, as host of the network’s Fashionista program she has built a reputation as a style authority, and has been able to indulge her self-confessed ‘mania’ for dressing up. In 2008 she curated the exhibition of historical fashion photographs, Strike a Pose . . . With Lee Lin Chin at the National Archives of Australia, Canberra. She is known for her social media presence and her asymmetrical outfits and exaggerated personality gained her a cult following. She lives in Sydney and continues to present the weekend edition of SBS World News.