Eloise Grey

Eloise Grey seeks a more considered quality that embodies respect for the makers, the land, the art of weaving, tailoring and the process of trying and buying. Her first collection of ladies’ coats are a product whose time is in tune with the cycle of growth in the land and is treasured rather than lusted after guiltily. Wear your coat year after year and hand it on.

Eloise is based in Elstead, Surrey. She was born and brought up in rural Surrey and has returned to her roots to nurture her design business. She started making clothes at 10 and at 13 doubled her pocket money by making basic skirts out of print off-cuts for a local designer who then embellished and sold

them ’on the King’s Road’.

After studying Italian at Edinburgh University she lived in Italy and then South America. She fed on the refinement and colour of Italian style and later the vibrancy and hand-crafting of the makers of Ecuador. Returning to the UK, she had a successful career as a product manager in the internet industry, learning the language of brand, business and quarterly results. She wanted to go somewhere deeper and more connected.

Eloise spent several years refining her skills at art schools and further education colleges in London. During this time she encountered two industry stalwarts who were key to her development: Martin Shoben, the