Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee

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Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee

Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee

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I learnt a lot about pattern cutting I didn't know - in fact enough to make me not only respect the pattern cutter a great deal more, but to make me want to learn more and try to be a bit more adventurous myself. While watching the last series of Sewing Bee I said to my parents “I wish Esme would bring a book out, she’s had an amazing life by the sounds of it! It brings back memories of wonderful, creative times in London — our friend's final fashion degree, endless parties, and unique people we met. Fascinating if you’re a follower of the industry, but I can imagine that it’s also a really good autobiography for anyone having grown up in that same era - and some fab name drop clangs that nobody can resent along the way! She is not only innovative, courageous and radical, but she's also kind, generous and gives credit where credit is due.

Her work has been featured in a range of magazines and newspapers including Vogue , ID , The Face , The Sunday Times and so much more. She's good at recognising the contribution of others to her success - not always the case in autobiographies - and it's a book I'd enjoy reading again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.She makes friendship with people she meets at different stages of her career and seems to have completely balanced relationships with them irrespective of age and they value one another's experience and expertise. I love The sewing Bee, and love Esme Young who is a judge on the program, but the book was disappointing. Esme is an inspiration, not just because of her career, but also in the way she is 100% her authentic self - what you see is what you get, zero f’s given! She's humble too - she lives in a Peabody housing association house, and works well into her twilight years because she never sorted out a pension, and has been so generous with her money. Lots of name dropping of who she had met, partied with etc, I was not impressed, don't feel I got to know her at all.

I read this book in a day because it was exactly what I knew it would be - fun, interesting and hypnotic. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

She teaches fashion at Central St Martin's, and declares that she learns just as much from her students as they do from her. I remember reading about her 70’s/80’s label Swanky Modes back in the day and being so influenced by the London punk, New Romantic and new wave scenes. I have also purchased the audible version which is read expertly by Esme herself bringing another dimension to her life which brings out the colourful ups and downs of a fabulous career! Born into the very early era of punk, and then raised in the difficulty of the early 1980s, I always saw fashion as a huge important element of society - a reflection of what the masses wanted to be, and in many cases what could be afforded and imagined as a result of the restriction. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.



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