Reputation Grows in UK

“We’ve always thought we’d love New Zealand-born New York-based designer Rebecca Taylor, but meeting her yesterday to talk through her holiday collection it became official — Grazia’s got a girl crush,” Grazia Daily says about Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Middleton’s “fave designer.” “In the past few months her profile has upped in [the UK] because of Kate Middleton choosing a blue tweed past-season skirt suit for the Scott-Amundsen Centenary Race, but she’s been a A-list fixture in the wardrobes of SJP and Alexa Chung for yonks.” The magazine asks: “Have you always been interested in fashion?” “In New Zealand you had to be quite resourceful,” Taylor responds. “There weren’t tons of fashion stores, so I always used to customise and make a lot of my own clothes. I decided you don’t have to be rich to look good.”