Hope Macaulay
Hope Macaulay (born 26 April 1996) is a Northern Ireland fashion and textiles designer, creative director and founder of the contemporary luxury fashion brand Hope Macaulay.
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Hope Macaulay (born 26 April 1996) is a Northern Ireland fashion and textiles designer, creative director and founder of the contemporary luxury fashion brand Hope Macaulay.
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Macaulay graduated from the UK-based University for the Creative Arts in Fashion Textiles: Print in 2018. In the same year she showed her graduate collection at London's Graduate Fashion Week and in London Fashion Week In 2018, she launched her namesake brand Hope Macaulay. She is most well known for her "kaleidoscopic knitwear and fantasy prints". She was listed in the Irish Times as ‘Top 50 People to Watch in 2019’ and spotlighted by Elle magazine and Vanity Fair Italia in 2020. Macaulay's handmade-to-order garments have been featured in British Vogues “Best Street Style at London Fashion Week” and have been worn by Irish actress Bronagh Waugh and Grammy nominated singer and songwriter, Halsey In May 2020, Vogue magazine featured Hope Macaulay as "an independent craft-led label you need to know about now".
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Macaulay was born in Magherafelt in 1996 and grew up in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, where her studio is based. Her father is the writer Tony Macaulay.
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- 1.Q+A MEET FASHION DESIGNER HOPE MACAULAY AND HER POWERFUL PRINTS. Texintel.
- 2.Milton, Josh. Hope Macaulay. Ragged Cult Magazine. 2018-07-17.
- 3.Stewart, Gracie. LONDON CALLING: THE BEST STREET STYLE LOOKS FROM LONDON FASHION WEEK FW19. Harpers Bazaar Singapore. 2019-02-18.
- 4.Hope Macaulay Contemporary Luxury Fashion Designer. Hope Macaulay.
- 5.Bell, Gail. Co Antrim designer Hope Macaulay living the dream in surreal world of fashion. The Irish News. 2020-01-20.
- 6.50 people to watch in 2019: Ireland's hottest young talent. The Irish Times.
- 7.ELLE, Team. 100 Independent Fashion Brands To Support During The Pandemic (And Beyond). ELLE. 2020-04-01.
- 8.Cicchetti, Silvia. Si può fare shopping in giro per il mondo (via Instagram). Vanity Fair Italia. 2020-06-18.
- 9.Fattie. HOPE MACAULAY LONDON FW2019. Fashion Maniac. 2019-05-19.
- 10.Co Antrim fashion designer: When Bronagh Waugh wore my clothes in Paris, people stopped and asked who her designer was. belfasttelegraph. 0307-1235.
- 11.Fashion North.
- 12.6 New Names In Summer Knitwear To Obsess Over. British Vogue. 22 May 2020.
- 13.Winter, Peter. Hope and glory Portstewart designer Hope Macaulay is making a big splash in the fashion world. Coleraine Chronicle. 2020-06-23.
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