Bella Freud AW22
The Bella Freud Autumn-Winter 2022 (AW22) collection evokes an inquisitive and daring youthful spirit. Bella says: “It is important in fashion that you don't relax into being repetitive.”
TALES FROM BELLA'S WORLD...
AND GOD CREATED SUSIE...
The first time I met Susie, I was assisting on a shoot that she was modelling in for Elle magazine, in the late 80's. I saw her getting changed in the back of...
ANITA PALLENBERG
I first saw Anita Pallenberg on the front page of the Sun when I was twelve years old. I was entranced by her glamour and spent my frugal pocket money on a copy...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
Once, when I was in Paris for work some years ago, I arranged to have breakfast with my friend Christian Louboutin. We ambled down the Rue de Rivoli and wandered into a smart-looking...
GINSBERG IS GOD
I made a short film in 2002 with John Malkovich called 'Hideous Man', about some Beatnik girls waiting around in a club for their favourite poet to arrive and do a reading.
MYTHICAL BUNNY
‘Hey, Bel, will you come with me to a Cloud Workshop?’ My dearest friend Susie Cave was on the phone, telling me about an artist called Deborah Smith who she had met in...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Major moments of learning in my life have been entwined with Vivienne Westwood. I first worked in her punk shop Seditionaries when I was 17. Every now and then Vivienne would come into the shop with a...
TALES FROM THE 90'S: DVF IN NYC
Diane von Furstenberg, aka DVF, is all over town at the moment. She popped over during London Fashion Week to celebrate the opening of her latest shop which is all black lacquer, mirrors...
CUTTING DAD'S HAIR
Every now and then when I was round at my father’s studio where he lived, he
would pick up the phone and call his barber, who worked from the Berkeley
Hotel.
would pick up the phone and call his barber, who worked from the Berkeley
Hotel.
DOG STORY: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
When I first started my label (that’s the word we used before ‘Brand’ became universal), I asked my father if he would write out my name so that I could use it as my logo - he had such great handwriting.
BELLA'S ARRIVAL IN TOWN SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HER SISTER
On my 9th birthday my father gave me a copy of Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc. This sounds like a classic parent to child birthday ritual but it had so much more significance...
DAVID HOCKNEY
There is a secret quality to David Hockney’s paintings. When you look at his swimming pools, you feel you are getting a tiny window into a world - and you can’t stop thinking...
