Luella Bartley
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.
Luella has showcased at several London Fashion Weeks, won four Designer of the Year awards and was British Designer of the Year 2009.
A graduate of Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the former fashion journalist and British Vogue fashion editor set up her own label at the turn of the millennium. In her first two years she was given Britain’s Young Designer of the Year award and heralded as the savior of Mulberry with her Gisele bag design. After a seven-year stretch in New York, she returned to London and opened her first shop on Brook Street. Her designs are worn by Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Pixie Geldof, Kate Bosworth, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sienna Miller and Keira Knightly amongst others.
Quintessentially English with a streak of punk, Luella is one of the designers of generation, renowned for her anti-establishment stance – she’s been quoted as saying she wanted to make “the kind of clothes you can get drunk and fall over in.”
Luella will be based in our extended Fashion Tent area in the Walled Garden alongside Barbara Hulanicki, Anna Sui, Andrew Bolton, Sandy Powell and Stephen Jones, making one-off creations for Port Eliot festival-goers to feel extremely special in.
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Luella backstage at New York Fashion Week
