Category Archives: Makers

Lydia Higginson, dressmaker, in London

I have written about Lydia before on this blog (you can see links to the earlier posts listed at the end of this one). Photo credit: mademywardrobe on Instagram Lydia spent two years living in Bristol and working in a studio in the Textiles Quarter alongside other makers. She began with a ‘year of making’ContinueContinue reading “Lydia Higginson, dressmaker, in London”

Hoodlum Clothing

I’m interested in small businesses, especially those run by women. (You can read my interviews with seven such businesses here, here, here, here, here, here and here.)   This week I’d like to introduce a business  – Hoodlum Clothing – which I first discovered when I attended a student fashion show, here in Durham last summer.ContinueContinue reading “Hoodlum Clothing”