Got your New Year’s Eve plans sorted yet? How about seeing in 2023 ‘Vintage style’ in one of the world’s architectural gems, set dressed to create a multi-venue adventure playground of music, entertainment and dancing with THE best views of London’s iconic NYE fireworks over the River Thames! I and the team at Hemingway Design […]

Disposable fashion is an awful concept. By the time you read this the UK will have been under lockdown for roughly one week, and our lives as we know them have been drastically changed. We don’t know how long it will last before these restrictions start to ease off, but it has me wondering whether […]

Music flows through HemingwayDesign, and here is a blog that documents Wayne’s eclectic tastes. For more, visit Wayne’s mixcloud. We have a special Memory Tape this week from designer Wayne Hemingway who has hand-picked tracks from the year 1983, the year he set up his first clothing factory in Blackburn, Lancashire. The tape was made to […]

A blog about how affordable rents helped us get started and how through the markets we curate we are, in a small way, helping start-ups “have a go” by providing low cost opportunities.  I grew up in modest background to the sound of whirring sewing machines and with a mum and a nan who always […]

Our punk history…say no more. I am lucky to have been a music and fashion obsessed 15 year old when punk broke in 1976. Whilst the early 70s were exciting for a teenager who liked to dance, with Bowie, Roxy, T Rex, Northern Soul and funk spoiling us for choice, punk was something else. This […]

Returning to an old chestnut – secondhand clothing and the circular economy. I love fashion (well I would with my background). I love looking at each new seasons mens and womenswear collections. But I stick with looking and very very rarely buy any new clothes (except undies and socks). I have a wardrobe (or 6) full […]

Wayne talks about Bowie’s influence on his life and career. If I am asked to name one artist that has influenced my career then it’s never something I have to rack my brains about; there is one that, for me, has always stood head and shoulders above anyone else. I can track my decision back […]

As you would imagine we are interested in and have a passion for the history of fashion. Here we show some historical pics of Wayne and shamelessly big up a book we put out. I am loving the new book; The Bag I’m in: Underground Music and Fashion in Britain 1960-1990 by Sam Knee. It documents […]

In July 2015 we took a Guinness World Record off Mexico City A year ago I was asked by Culture Liverpool if I was interested in directing a weekend of celebrations to mark the 175th anniversary of the first Transatlantic passenger crossing from Europe to Halifax, Boston and New York. On 4th July 1840 a small […]