David Longshaw

Now Co-Creative Director of LONGSHAW WARD.
David Longshaw, St Martin’s BA (Hons), RCA (MA). Winner of the inaugural BFC/ELLE Talent Launch Pad.
After graduating in 2007 David received a flurry of press attention and nominations for International Awards and had secured a position at Alberta Ferretti before his final graduate collection was even shown. Although very keen to launch his own label he felt it was important to gain more internationally commercial experience, so went on to work for Max Mara.

David is now concentrating on his own label which he launched during February LFW 2010 (when he was selected for the ‘Ones To Watch’ catwalk show, Vauxhall Fashion Scout and to exhibit with the BFC).

David has been shortlisted for a wealth of awards and was named as one of the ‘Designers to Watch 2011’ by vogue.com and one of ‘The Rising Stars of 2011’ by ELLE.

With not only a natural talent for fashion, but also for illustration (winner of the Colin Barnes Drawing Prize 2005) he has contributed to a number of publications (including vogue.com, the LFW newspaper ) and uses his illustrations and story writing as a starting point for his collections. His characters include Maude the fabric fashion mouse (made originally by David whilst at St Martin’s) described by British Vogue as ‘Longshaw’s long standing cult creation’. Maude and her fabric fashion team have now been made by David in to a book series(The Maude and Doris Series), launched earlier this year. Grazia said of the Maude book, ‘David Longshaw’s mouse is a franchise waiting to explode...The devil no longer wears Prada; the devil eats gouda’ The books, diaries and notebooks are all available on Amazon.

He also created ‘Francesca & Arthur’ a comic strip for Vogue Italia (vogue.it).
And
A number of animations for LOVE magazine.

David Longshaw has been commissioned by a variety of Brands including, redesigning the packaging for Nails Inc (For the Nails Inc X David Longshaw nail varnish) , creating the windows for Matchesfashion.com London stores, painting his characters on the windows of the Michelin star restaurant Yauatcha (in Soho) for their Matchesfashion.com LFW collaboration and creating a David Longshaw for Triumph Lingerie, installation ‘Maude the Maker’ for LFW.

"I love David's ability to illustrate and design, and his lateral thinking on pattern and print. His designs have the potential for you to say, 'That's a David Longshaw dress'," Lorraine Candy, ELLE Editor-in-Chief.

'Romantic, determined and with a fervid imagination. The young designer David Longshaw is all these things and more, and his qualities come through in his clothes.' Vogue Italia

David Longshaw’s collections (garments, bags, scarves and illustrations) are sold worldwide including in: Britain, USA, Dubai and Hong Kong amongst others.