We are thrilled to welcome the hip and iconic fashion designer Anna Sui – “the Big Apple’s boho queen” (the Telegraph) – to Port Eliot this year. Still as fresh and cutting-edge as she was when she started out 30 years ago, Anna’s self-confessed “girlie rock and roll” designs are instantly recognisable and worn by the likes Nicole Kidman and Liv Tyler.
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Drawing influences from the British music scene past and present, Luella Bartley has made great impact on fashion since her 2000 debut show Daddy, who were The Clash? From New York City to China, Luella’s self-titled brand has global recognition.
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Sarah Mower is a leading fashion journalist who writes for Vogue USA and has a regular Telegraph style column Prêt-à-rapporter. Her international reputation within the industry has led to her recent appointment as the British Fashion Council's first Ambassador for Emerging Talent, which helps sponsor some of the country's most talented young graduates and designers. She’s also the author and co-author of four widely-acclaimed books on fashion and style, including 20 Years Dolce & Gobbana (2006).
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We’re thrilled to welcome BAFTA and Academy Award-winning costume designer Sandy Powell to this year’s festival. Renowned for her work on an array of Hollywood films, she’s the winner of three Oscars for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Aviator (2004) and just recently, The Young Victoria (2009). She has won BAFTAs for films including Velvet Goldmine (1998) – and has won numerous other awards for her work on pictures such as Orlando (1992).
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Millinery maestro Stephen Jones is a leading light in the fashion world, having created hats for Christian Dior, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs amongst many others. He was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2009, and will be creating one-off hats for festival-goers in the Walled Garden’s new Fashion Tent, doing an event with US Vogue’s Sarah Mower and running a special floral hat-trimming workshop at the Flower Show.
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An iconic figure in British fashion, Barbara Hulanicki founded the now-legendary Biba boutique with her late husband in 1964. Striking a chord with an increasingly hip and free-thinking public, Biba became synonymous with swinging London in the 1960s and 1970s and was a popular hangout for artists, film stars and rock musicians, including Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull.
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Acclaimed designer and portrait artist, Nigel Waymouth’s quintessential pop posters are synonymous with the summer of love era. He co-founded the original rock-chic boutique, Granny Takes a Trip, and together with Guy Sangster Adams will be doing a special event in the Walled Garden about the retro boutique.
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Curator of the world-famous Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Andrew Bolton will be doing a special event with iconic fashion designer, Anna Sui, at this year’s festival. Known for his colourfully groundbreaking exhibitions, Andrew has curated everything from Men in Skirts (at the V&A) to WILD – Fashion Untamed; Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy to Blithe Spirit: The Windsor Set. His knowledge of fashion is as cutting-edge as it is diverse.
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