Luella's Guide to English Style Luella Bartley,2010 Top young fashion designer Luella Bartley celebrates English style and explains how to acquire it.
Luella Bartley makes her big comeback as design director, four years after her eponymous ready-to-wear line shuttered, and Katie Hillier has.!
Luella Bartley unmasked
On a snowy day, Luella Bartley is making cups of tea in the kitchen of her Bloomsbury townhouse.
As she adds oat milk to wibbly-wobbly Feldspar mugs, she’s shadowed by her two dogs – Guido the dachshund and a lurcher called Prince. It’s a cosy scene, yet the unfussy, Dickensian-made-modern interiors are as cool as you would expect from a fashion designer who injected noughties British fashion with a rock-chick edge.
I love odd [laughs].Who launched her own label, Luella, in 1999, with the tongue-in-cheek, artisto-chic collection titled Daddy, I Want A Pony. Who was flatmates with Elastica frontwoman Justine Frischmann and Mathangi Arulpragasam (aka rapper M.I.A.), but later moved to Cornwall with her fashion photographer husband David Sims and raised three children.
Whose CV includes roles at Marc by Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein, not to mention the eponymous venture Hillier Bartley, with friend and former colleague Katie Hillier.
Beyond her elegant stairwell – all bare wa