Luella Bartley

Luella Bartley is a British designer, writer and artist who studied at Central Saint Martins. She began in fashion journalism, contributing to The Face, Dazed & Confused, British Vogue and the Evening Standard, before launching her Luella label in 1999. Its clothes drew on English dress traditions, music and punk, and she received the British Fashion Council's Designer of the Year award in 2008.

Bartley later worked on Marc by Marc Jacobs and collaborated with Raf Simons and Pieter Mulier at Calvin Klein. Her subsequent art practice includes painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, exploring the female body, vulnerability and intimacy.