Hope Macaulay
UK fashion designer
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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.
Career
Macaulay graduated from the UK-based University for the Creative Arts in Fashion Textiles: Print in 2018.[1] In the same year she showed her graduate collection at London's Graduate Fashion Week [2] and in London Fashion Week[3]
In 2018, she launched her namesake brand Hope Macaulay.[4] She is most well known for her "kaleidoscopic knitwear and fantasy prints".[5] She was listed in the Irish Times as ‘Top 50 People to Watch in 2019’[6] and spotlighted by Elle magazine [7] and Vanity Fair Italia [8] in 2020. Macaulay's handmade-to-order garments have been featured in British Vogue's “Best Street Style at London Fashion Week”[9] and have been worn by Irish actress Bronagh Waugh[10] and Grammy nominated singer and songwriter, Halsey[11]
In May 2020, Vogue magazine featured Hope Macaulay as "an independent craft-led label you need to know about now".[12]
Personal life
Macaulay was born in Magherafelt in 1996 and grew up in Portstewart,[13] Northern Ireland, where her studio is based. Her father is the writer Tony Macaulay.
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