Luella Bartley
July 2023
October 2016
- Weekend fashion special autumn/winter 2016Luella Bartley and Katie Hillier: ‘You can have swagger in jeans, an old T-shirt and heels’They spent their 20s designing by day and partying by night. So how do best friends and collaborators Luella Bartley and Katie Hillier plan to approach their 40s? With attitude, of course
October 2014
September 2014
February 2014
Marc by Marc Jacobs at New York fashion week: front row and backstage
Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley debuted their first collection for Marc by Marc Jacobs, the designs riffing on youthful tailoring – the models wore pigtails – with big prints and boyish boots. The Observer's Jo Jones was front row to snap the models, and backstage to capture the collection's reception afterwards
September 2013
May 2013
November 2009
August 2009
February 2009
February 2008
Homecoming queen
With Lily Allen and Kelly Osbourne among her fans, the designer Luella Bartley embodies a quirky and particularly British style. On the eve of her show at London fashion week, she tells Hadley Freeman about the drunken dare that led to a career in fashion and why she decided America wasn't for her
September 2007
February 2006
Luella goes stellar
It all started as a bit of joke - dresses for pony-club punks. Now Luella Bartley runs an £8m-a-year fashion label and is the golden girl of London's style mafia. Caroline Roux asks the designer who went to college with Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney, where it all went right?