Property News · June 17, 2018

Matthew Williamson: from fashion star to interiors tsar


The catwalk king has moved to Mallorca to concentrate on designing not clothes – but homesThree years ago the fashion designer Matthew Williamson quietly moved to Mallorca, closed his shops and began to wind down the fashion arm of his brand. There was no grand finale catwalk show or overblown press release, simply an absence from the 2016 London Fashion Week programme and an announcement that he was moving to online sales only.Such a restructuring wasn’t that unusual at the time: catwalk shows were widely agreed to be losing their allure, and sales in bricks and mortar shops were dipping. And yet, such was the absence of accompanying fanfare, no one in fashion thought for a minute this might mean no more dresses from a luminary renowned for what US Vogue high priestess Anna Wintour once described as “bright bubbly prints and unabashedly pretty clothes”. After all, Williamson was at the top of his game; his statement gowns regularly made the red carpet thanks to long-standing A-list fans such as Sienna Miller and Thandie Newton. But, dial it all down he did, for his creativity had found a new form of expression – interior design. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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