Helen David
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Helen David was born in Brighton
. After her A-levels, she moved to London
and gained a first-class honours degree at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, where she studied textiles and fine art print-making. She then studied fashion as a post-graduate at the famous Central St. Martin’s College of Art.
The design label English Eccentrics
was founded in 1983 by Helen, her sister Judy Purbeck and friend Claire Angel. This internationally renowned fashion house specialises in hand-printed and hand-embroidered eveningwear and scarves. In 2000 Helen won the Glamour Award during London Fashion Week.
Her interest in fine art continued throughout her fashion career and in 2001 she took time out from her business in order to concentrate full-time on art. Friends and Icons, Helen’s first one-woman art exhibition, opened at the Space Gallery in Belgravia, London in October 2003, the curator was Laura Parker-Bowles. Immortals, her second show, opened in 2005. Her work is in the private collections of such people as Simon Fuller
and Toyah Willcox
.
Going back to her first love, Helen reopened English Eccentrics
in 2006; adding an interior design line to her clothes and accessories ranges. She now works out of a studio in a Kentish Town
and online selling has become a major part of her business.
Helen’s fashion/textile work is in permanent collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of London
and the Art Institute of Chicago
.
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
. After her A-levels, she moved to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and gained a first-class honours degree at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, where she studied textiles and fine art print-making. She then studied fashion as a post-graduate at the famous Central St. Martin’s College of Art.
The design label English Eccentrics
English Eccentrics
English Eccentrics is a London-based fashion design label, which creates bespoke one-off designs for celebrities and seasonal collections for a wider audience...
was founded in 1983 by Helen, her sister Judy Purbeck and friend Claire Angel. This internationally renowned fashion house specialises in hand-printed and hand-embroidered eveningwear and scarves. In 2000 Helen won the Glamour Award during London Fashion Week.
Her interest in fine art continued throughout her fashion career and in 2001 she took time out from her business in order to concentrate full-time on art. Friends and Icons, Helen’s first one-woman art exhibition, opened at the Space Gallery in Belgravia, London in October 2003, the curator was Laura Parker-Bowles. Immortals, her second show, opened in 2005. Her work is in the private collections of such people as Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller is a British artist manager, television producer and creator of the Idol franchise, first seen as Pop Idol in the UK. Fuller is also the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox TV reality show So You Think You Can Dance and other U.S...
and Toyah Willcox
Toyah Willcox
Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...
.
Going back to her first love, Helen reopened English Eccentrics
English Eccentrics
English Eccentrics is a London-based fashion design label, which creates bespoke one-off designs for celebrities and seasonal collections for a wider audience...
in 2006; adding an interior design line to her clothes and accessories ranges. She now works out of a studio in a Kentish Town
Kentish Town
Kentish Town is an area of north west London, England in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The most widely accepted explanation of the name of Kentish Town is that it derived from 'Ken-ditch' meaning the 'bed of a waterway'...
and online selling has become a major part of her business.
Helen’s fashion/textile work is in permanent collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of London
Museum of London
The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. The museum is located close to the Barbican Centre, as part of the striking Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 70s as an innovative approach to re-development within a bomb damaged...
and the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
.