2/03/2012
Kate Middleton’s Designer Inspired by Hasidic Coat
Katherine Hooker’s outerwear label began in 2003, after she decided to replicate a coat she had bought in Israel. “I bought a young boy’s Hasidic coat in a junk shop,” she says. “And it was an old one, like when clothes used to be made for people as opposed to mass market. I was 18 and tiny and skinny, and it fit me absolutely perfectly; it was made for a 14-year-old boy or something.” Hooker loved it so much, she found a tailor in India to replicate it for her. Her friends were so enamored with the piece that she started making coats for them, and not long after, in 2004, she opened her shop in London.
Thanks Debbie, great post/find!!
