Katherine Hooker Now
Katherine’s design philosophy is one of constant refinement. She creates pieces that are timeless, that have a beauty and form that shine over many years. She adds to her collection with great care and only when she has found a design she can subtly refine and enrich from season to season. Katherine searches for silhouettes and shapes that can become the inspiration for a world of possibilities, realised in multiple fabrics, colours and trims.
Like Katherine herself, the designs are wholly individual: vintage East Coast America fused with contemporary England glinting with subtle references to people and places that have sparked her creative vision along the way.
Each piece is hand made in England with the same attention to detail and finish as Katherine’s custom made pieces. Katherine has carefully created beautiful combinations of fabric and colour for the Katherine Hooker Now collection.
The roots of Katherine Hooker are in tweed. It was her love of tweed that drove her to make her first coat. One of Katherine’s great joys is hunting down the very best tweeds she can find, from the great mills of Scotland to the one loom operators making limited run tweeds. For summer and spring she turns to the finest raw silks, silk satins and lightweight, natural linens.
Katherine has drawn from over a 150 different tweeds, silks, linens and cashmeres, and matched them with just the right trims, linings and buttons to create a collection that is made with the same devotion as her custom made pieces.
Born in Cyprus into an American family and brought up in North Africa, Katherine arrived in England aged nine. It made for an unsettling lifestyle change for such a free spirit but one that Katherine embraced whole-heartedly over the coming years. In her twenties, Katherine divided her time between London, New York, and Paris, building a career as an Interiors’ stylist, creating beautiful sets for photo-shoots and movies. Travel is in her blood and continues to be an integral part of her lifestyle.
In the summer of 2001, on a break between films, Katherine boarded a plane to India armed with a suitcase full of tweeds not quite sure of her mission Working closely with a village tailor in Kerala, she designed a classic winter coat (the Braid coat), perfecting the cut and detail entirely according to her own personal taste. Three weeks later, Katherine touched down at Heathrow with six original coat designs and Katherine Hooker London was born.
