Bella Freud

Bella Freud (born 17 April 1961) is a London-based fashion designer with a number of celebrity clients.

Life and career

Freud was born in London, England. She is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and artist Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Her father Lucian Freud (born 8 December 1922) died 20 July 2011 at the age of 88. Only four days later, her mother died on 24 July 2011 at the age of 68 of cancer.

Her only full sibling is her sister, writer Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippie childhood in Morocco, Hideous Kinky.

Freud started working for Vivienne Westwood during the 1980s before setting up her own design company. She also spent a year as guest designer for Stirling Cooper and undertook consultancy work for the British fashion company Jaeger during the 1990s. She has been responsible for the relaunch and revamp of fashion house Biba.

Freud is married to James Fox, the author of the book White Mischief, and they have one son named Jimmy born around 2001.

Podcasts:

PLAYLIST TIME:

Rainy Day In London

by: Boulevard

Spending my time thinking of you
I just can't seem to get it through.
Everything's o.k. when you're around me
way down deep inside
Givin' way to feelings that surround me.
I saw you standin' there
hopin' that you'd look my way.
A glance
a twinkle in your eye
memories of that rainy day in London town
The way I feel I can't explain
the feeling's going on inside me about you.
Never thought I'd feel this way
day to day it just kept slipping by me.
I saw you standin' there
hopin' that you'd look my way. . . .
In London town
in London town




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Bella Freud, Damson Madder: the Mother's Day presents cool London mums actually want

London Evening Standard 25 Mar 2025
There are certain failsafe brands to look to, and all will deliver in time (order quickly!) ... .
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The Mulberry Bayswater is back: The Noughties staple is this summer's It Bag according to ...

The Daily Mail 21 Mar 2025
Fashion is about the thrill of the new. But, increasingly, it's also about the thrill of the old ... Instead, it's of a somewhat more mature vintage ... Kate Moss wore her black one with a Bella Freud jumper and skinny jeans ... But nor is it the most expensive ... .
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Six must-have M&S styles that are flattering, anti-ageing and an astonishing bargain - but they'll ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2025
This it has achieved, in part, thanks to last October's Bella Freud collection (M&S's most successful fashion collaboration ever, apparently) and a couple of winning Sienna Miller campaigns ... She who knows has got to have it ... She nips into M&S ... .
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Coldplay back calls to overturn report that criticised Kids Company

AOL 17 Mar 2025
Other names on the list include Sir Stephen Frears, the film director; Bella Freud, the fashion designer; Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the former BBC director-general; and Alan Yentob, the BBC executive and former chair of trustees for Kids Company ... .
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Coldplay lend their voices to overturn report that criticised Kids Company

The Daily Telegraph 17 Mar 2025
Other names on the list include Sir Stephen Frears, the film director; Bella Freud, the fashion designer; Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the former BBC director-general; and Alan Yentob, the BBC executive and former chair of trustees for Kids Company ... .
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Sadie Frost's insider guide to London: Bella Freud, Banya No. 1 Russian baths and supper ...

London Evening Standard 07 Mar 2025
The actor and Twiggy director on where she likes to take a date — plus, she opens her little black book of favourite clothes shops in London ... .
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