UN PETIT TIROIR

venerdì 24 febbraio 2012

ENGLISH STYLE

KATHERINE HOOKER

Katherine has created two waistcoats, the Daisy and the Alexander, that have become timeless classics. They have proved hugely popular thanks to the comfort of the cut and grace of the silhouette. Each can be custom-made in any combination of fabric and detail, according to the precise taste of the customer.

"Katherine Hooker's outerwear label began in 2003, after she decided to replicate a coat she had bought in Israel. "I bought a young boy's Hasidic coat in a junk shop," she says. "And it was an old one, like when clothes used to be made for people as opposed to mass market. I was 18 and tiny and skinny, and it fit me absolutely perfectly; it was made for a 14-year-old boy or something." Hooker loved it so much, she found a tailor in India to replicate it for her. Her friends were so enamored with the piece that she started making coats for them, and not long after, in 2004, she opened her shop in London. That store would go on to be frequented by Kate Middleton and her sister Pippa, and royals like Princess Beatrice. Since the duchess has been photographed numerous times in pieces by Hooker, who dressed about fifteen people for the royal wedding, she has expanded her staff and her presence in the U.S., where she's doing more trunk shows than ever before. While the bulk of Hooker's business here comes from those, she won't rule out eventually opening her own store in the U.S., or adding new store accounts (you can currently find her stuff at Peter Elliot Women in the Upper East Side). We chatted with Hooker about America's royal fever, knockoffs of her work, and more".

From: http://nymag.com/