Inspiration: For Women Only
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Steven Harkin has been an artist, designer, maker, and producer of leather accessories for some 25 years.
Steven’s creative wit and innovative design has gained him international recognition, and seen his handbags acquired by both public and private collections across the [...]
John Galliano, British Designer extraordinaire – a snapshot in Pictures.
John Galliano was born in 1960 in Gibraltar of a Gibraltan father. He was named Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guillén.
At the age of 6, the Galliano family moved to Streatham in South London. See more of the Galliano biog here…
Terry Dwan is an accomplished architect and designer.
Born in Santa Monica, California in 1957, Dwan did her undergraduate studies at Rice University, with one year in Florence, Italy.
After professional experience in structural engineering, civil engineering and architecture, she completed a Masters of Architecture at Yale University in 1984 and upon graduating, won a Fulbright Scholarship [...]
Betty Jackson was born in Bacup, Lancashire in 1949 and since then has gone on to become an internationally renowned fashion designer.
After studying for a degree in fashion and textiles at Birmingham College of Art her career went from strength to strength.
In 1975 she started work as the chief designer at the fashion collective Quorum alongside [...]
The most eccentric and influential of Britain’s fashion designers who puts out on the runway the most amazing and spectacular clothes.
Her Logo is a royal ORB with a cross on top, bejewelled and impressive as befits the Queen of British fashion.
In 1941, Vivienne Swire was born in Derbyshire, England. Her father was a shoemaker and [...]
Tom Ford was born in Austin, Texas in 1962, but spent most of his childhood years in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tom Ford enrolled on an art history course at New York University and was also trained as an actor. It was there he discovered the seminal Studio 54 nightclub and Warhol’s Factory, where he met [...]
Zandra Rhodes was born in Chatham, Kent, UK in 1940 and introduced to the world of fashion by her mother.
Her major area of study was printed textile design achieving her a National Diploma in 1960.
Her early textile fashion designs were considered too outrageous by the traditional British manufacturers, so in 1969, she established [...]
Katherine Hamnett is a British eighties fashion icon, best known for her political slogan T-shirts.
She has re-launched her slogan cotton organic t-shirts with a re-issue of the Choose Life brand. She is also well known as an active campaigner on environmental and social issues.
She also invented distressed denim, stonewash denim, stretch denim, parachute silk, garment [...]
“Couture brought me happiness, they were the best years of my life,” Madame Carven recalls with a smile at a celebration to mark her approaching 100th birthday in 2009. A diminutive 1.55m (five foot one) in her stockinged feet, for half a century she was the favourite designer of petite women.
In recognition of her [...]
Anya Hindmarch MBE has come a long way from her first store on London’s Walton Street.
The Anya Hindmarch label now incorporates leather handbags, small leather goods, luggage, shoes and clothes. She was born in 1968.
In 2001, Anya launched the charity promotion ‘Be a Bag’, which allows customers to have their own photographs printed onto [...]
