How old is emma hill mulberry

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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Emma Hill: Designer who made Mulberry a global player packs her bags for good. Creative director is credited with turning the Somerset-based firm into an international fashion powerhouse Laura Chesters Tuesday 11 June Article bookmarked Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile Don't show me this message again. Already subscribed?

Log in. WWD published an article breaking the story this morning. Rumours suggest that the move was prompted by disagreements "over creative and operational strategy", and speculation has also suggested Hill is in place to take over at US accessories brand Coach. Reed Krakoff, the brand's current president and executive creative director, announced he is leaving the brand next year after 17 years there.

The search for a successor at Coach is on. It was at Marc Jacobs that she had her first it bag hit — the Stella, a handheld boxy style, with two pockets on the front. While Emma Hill was loth to call her designs "it" bags, she has frequently called a successful design a nose-twitcher: one she knew was a hit even at the prototype stage.

Her instincts were almost always bang on. Hill had the magic to bewitch the bag-buying public while at Mulberry — making the brand appeal across demographics, from laptop-toting businesswomen to aspirational teenagers. It's this mass appeal that Mulberry will miss the most. If Hill made the brand known to all, she made sure it was placed with all the right people.

Kate Moss liked the prototype of Hill's first Mulberry bag design so much she took it away with her. But Hill's greatest hit was the Alexa bag, a satchel shape named after Alexa Chung , which became a bestseller despite being launched in a recession. Hill's work for Mulberry was always right for the zeitgeist. Her success came with minimal hardware — the metal fastenings on bags, which were crucial to the first wave of "it" bags. She told the fashion website WWD in she couldn't "bear hardware that doesn't feel real".