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Newspaper Article
Colour crusader
2010
Overview
How did she reconcile such a design ethic with the deeply traditional Royals, for whom she is now working on her fourth commissioned collection? \"I was very touched to be asked,\" she says, \"because in a way what we do is quite innovative so it was an interesting idea. It isn't about making it contemporary in the way that our fabrics are contemporary,\" she says. \"It's respecting the traditional qualities and inspirations we found there. And yet making it right for the moment.\" It was, she concedes, challenging. And nerve-racking? \"Yes - very. I hear the Queen sees everything, so it was quite daunting - but the remit's quite wide.\" She chuckles: \"As long as it's liked!\" \"Hopefully I don't follow trends, no,\" she says, sipping a coffee in the basement of her landmark Chelsea shop, the very same one she opened aged 22 in 1970 - but vastly expanded. \"And hopefully I create trends - but that's not for me to say.\" She continues: \"I think there has been a British reticence about being garish, which I quite understand. Hopefully this isn't garish\" - she gestures around the shop - \"it's strong and invigorating.\" She uses words like this a lot: her designs are \"vivacious\" and \"dynamic\", and since a life-changing, technicolor visit to India in her youth (it is what prompted her to open the shop), she has wanted to \"show people how lovely it can be to live with colour\". It is, she believes, \"good for the soul\".
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Independent Digital News & Media
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