Dazzle 40 | Deirdre Hawken

Deirdre Hawken is a designer who creates one off couture pieces in her London studio. Her work is often inspired by food and nature. She combines traditional and contemporary techniques to produce her one off pieces.

Deirdre specialising in couture headpieces with many commissions for theatre, television, film and retail. She trained in Theatre Design at Central/St. Martins. She has exhibited and sold her work widely within the UK and internationally, including the Victoria and Albert Museum London, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum New York, and the Crafts Council Gallery London. Her work is in the public collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Kyoto Costume Institute, Kyoto, Japan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, and the Hat Museum, UK, and the Costume Museum, Bath, UK.

She is a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1999 she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship (QEST) to study couture millinery.

Dierdre Hawken first exhibited at Edinburgh Dazzle in 1985.

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