Sarah Jane Burton , OBE (nÃÆ' Â © e Heard , born 1974) is a British fashion designer, currently the creative director of fashion brand Alexander McQueen. She designed the wedding dress Catherine Middleton for her marriage to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge in April 2011. In 2012, she was named in Time 100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time
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Burton was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, one of five children Anthony and Diana Heard. She attended the Withington Women's School in Manchester. After completing an art foundation course at Manchester Polytechnic, and choosing to pursue fashion through art studies, he studied Print Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. During his third year he was interviewed for a one-year placement at Alexander McQueen on the advice of his tutor Simon Ungless, a McQueen friend. He joined the company for a year as an apprentice worker, when the company was headquartered in a small studio in Hoxton Square.
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After graduating in 1997, he joined the company as McQueen's personal assistant. Burton was appointed Head of Womenswear in 2000, during which time he created dresses for Michelle Obama, Cate Blanchett, Lady Gaga and Gwyneth Paltrow. After the death of McQueen in February 2010, and after the owner of the Gucci company insisted that the brand would continue, Burton was named new creative director Alexander McQueen in May 2010. In September 2010, Burton presented in Paris the first McQueen women's apparel collection that he possessed entirely. created.
On April 29, 2011, it was revealed that Burton had designed a wedding dress Catherine Middleton for her wedding that day to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Burton's work became Middleton's attention in 2005 when he attended the wedding of Tom Parker Bowles, the son of Duchess of Cornwall, for whom McQueen designed a wedding dress for his bride, Sara Buys fashion journalist. Created by the Royal School of Needlework, Burton says creating a royal wedding dress is a "lifetime experience".
Burton also designed the Pippa Middleton dress auxiliary clothes, and the dress that Kate Middleton wore at the wedding that night.
Personal life
Burton lives in St Johns Wood with her husband David Burton, a fashion photographer.
Awards
On November 28, 2011, Sarah Burton won the Designer of the Year award at the UK Fashion Awards 2011.
In July 2012, Burton received an honorary degree from Manchester Metropolitan University where he was a former student, becoming a Doctor of Honorary Art.
Burton was appointed Officer of the Royal Order of the United Kingdom (OBE) at the 2012 Anniversary Awards for service to the British fashion industry.
References
External links
- Alexander McQueen's Web site
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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