Bella Freud

Bella Freud (born April 17 1961 in London, England) is a London-based fashion designer with a number of celebrity clients.

She is the daughter of artist Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Her only full sibling is her sister, writer Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippy childhood in Morocco, Hideous Kinky.

Bella started working for Vivienne Westwood during the 1980s before setting up her own design company. She also undertook consultancy work for the British fashion company Jaeger during the 1990s. In her most recent fashion quest she has been responsible for the relaunch and revamp of fashion house Biba.

In an appearance on the BBC current affairs program "Newsnight" on August 2 2006, Bella Freud voiced an impassioned denunciation of Israel's "disproportionately violent aggression" in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict, for which she was widely appreciated. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5254030.stm#freud] .

Bella Freud writes a weekly column in the "Sunday Telegraph" free magazine "Stella", called "Bella on Beauty".She recently partook in a fashion shoot with the closest of Vivienne Westwood's friends and clientelle, in which Bella was dressed in a gold boiler suit complete with pipe and hat.

In 2007 she launched her own knitwear collection. To illustrate her work she collaborated with Elle Muliarchyk, a model and artist who was called "Guerrilla Model" by The New York Times. On her travels around the world Elle Muliarchyk created imaginary film stills by photographing herself wearing Freud's designs, only at nights, at often dangerous locations. The series of sublime images, called Journey To The End Of The Night, was exhibited during London Frieze Art Fair in 2007.