MARGARET HOWELL

  • Nationality
    British
  • Main
    34 Wigmore Street, London
    United Kingdom
  • Website
    www.margarethowell.co.uk
    www.margarethowell.jp

SUMMARY
For more than 38 years, British designer Margaret Howell celebrates the tactile, textural and the creation of clothes that weave a well-lived in story. She is celebrated for the nonchalant sophistication of her men’s clothes and the subtle grandeur of her women’s utilising some of the best fabrics and production taking place in the UK and in Italy. Working from her main studio and office on Wigmore Street in London, Howell is meticulous in all detailing where it be the source of a button, tailoring in a jacket or pants or her beautifully crafted outerwear. She sights military and British workwear references as part of the current makeup of her eponymous label. Harris Tweed and wool flannel, signatures in the English vernacular have been apart of both collections. Distinctively, Howell breaks from a typical English silhouette with garments produced with greater softness and ease. The more relaxed American tailoring encapsulates this. Throughout these years that have made the Margaret Howell brand even stronger, she never forgets to embed a long lasting essence of authenticity, of heritage and of personal character in what can be succinctly described as no fuss look.

HIGHLIGHTS
Studied Fine Art at Goldsmith College, London; 1969

First showing at London Fashion Week; 1995

Opens flagship store and own cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo; 1999

Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the fashion industry and Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of the Arts; 2007

Opens Margaret Howell store at 6 place de la Madeleine in Paris; 2009

Collaborates with Japanese Yoshida & Company to produce durable luggage bags; 2009

Reissue of G3 jacket with a collaboration with Baracuta; 2009

Collaboration of trainer shoe with Norman Walsh; 2009

Release of Margaret Howell Plus range with a shirt collaboration with Industrial designer Kenneth Grange; 2010

Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the University of the Arts, London for services to the fashion industry; 2010

Collaborates with Japanese company Porter to produce a series of backpacks and luggage wheel carriers; 2010

Featured in Canadian men’s fashion magazine Inventory; 2010