Spy: Annette Presley: From webs to threads

Businesswomen Annette Presley.Photo / Robert Trathen

From the world wide web to global fashion mogul. Multi-millionaire Annette Presley has a new business interest after buying into Paris fashion label Jitrois.

Presley made her money when she and former husband Malcolm Dick founded CallPlus, which later became Slingshot. The pair's marriage breakdown and business sour grapes made for many headlines, but the once regular in our social pages has been relatively quiet lately as she travelled the world with partner Marco Marinkovich and her two children.

But now they're back. Last week Spy snapped the pair at the Shine anti-domestic abuse dinner featuring guest speaker June Steenkamp, mother of slain South African model Reeva, at the Heritage Hotel. Presley proudly posed in designer threads by Jean-Claude Jitrois.

Spy understands Presley has bought into the business with friend and fellow entrepreneur, US businesswoman, Jodi Shelton. Texas based Shelton formed an investment firm called the Shelton Group, which recently joined forces with Jitrois, a French leather clothing line with stores in Europe and Asia, as well as one in Aspen, Colorado. Founded in 1983, Jitrois is famed for selling luxury leather wear to the jet set.

Shelton and Presley attended numerous fashion shows in Paris and both seem smitten with Jitrois. Presley recently posted her love of the label on Facebook, nicknaming colourful leather jackets "The Annette".

She wouldn't talk to Spy about the business, or the fact her $8.9million Takapuna house is on the market, maybe to facilitate investment in Jitrois? The label has invested heavily in a new Madison Avenue, New York, outlet - very expensive real estate.