Obsessed with Burberry

All about Christopher Bailey....

With a penchant for heart-rending music at his shows and the prettiest of people in his ad campaigns (we're talking Lily Donaldson as a flower pot girl for spring/summer 2009, Sam Riley and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley embraced for autumn/winter 2008-9 and Kate Moss, Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl shot by Mario Testino for spring/summer 2007), Christopher Bailey has well and truly put his sartorial stamp on the quintessentially British brand Burberry since becoming creative director in 2001.

Responsible for the design of all Burberry collections and product lines including Burberry Prorsum, Burberry London, Thomas Burberry and all Burberry licensed products globally, Yorkshire-born Bailey is also responsible for the company's overall image including all advertising, corporate art direction and store design.

• Bailey joined Burberry in May 2001.
• Prior to his appointment at Burberry, Bailey was the senior designer of womenswear at Gucci from 1996 to 2001.
• From 1994 to 1996 he was the womenswear designer at Donna Karan.

Since joining Burberry, Bailey has won numerous awards and accolades:

• In 2003, he received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art, from where he graduated in 1994.
• He won Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2005.
• In 2006, Bailey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Westminster, from where he graduated in 1990.
• He was named Menswear Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2007 and, the same year, also received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
• In 2008 he scooped Menswear Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards.
• In the November 2008 issue of Vogue, Sarah Harris documented the diary of Bailey's Burberry Prorsum feather dress.
• In 2009 Burberry shows at London Fashion Week for the first time.

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