Jenny packham wedding dress

JENNY PACKHAM is one of the red carpet's go-to designers for dazzling feminine glamour. From dressing Hollywood royalty - including Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet and Kate Hudson - to actual royalty like the Duchess of Cambridge, Packham's bejewelled, floor-length creations never disappoint the waiting photographers.

• Born in Hampshire on March 11, 1965, Packham is the sister of television presenter and naturalist Chris Packham.
• After studying fashion at Southampton Solent University and then receiving a First Class Honours degree from Central Saint Martins, Packham founded her eponymous line - then called Jenny Packham London - in 1988.
• After showing for several years during London Fashion Week - including the dramatic autumn/winter 2003-4 show where Jodie Kidd suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction - Packham moved to show in Milan for autumn/winter 2006-7. After four seasons there, she returned to London to present her autumn/winter 2008-9 collection. As of spring/summer 2011, she now shows every season during New York Fashion Week.
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  The connoisseur: Jenny Packham

  I can’t wait to go back to New York. I want to be somewhere busy and full of people. There’s an old black and white movie called Ice Cold in Alex about a group of soldiers travelling across the African desert, who say to each other, “When we get to Alexandria we’re going to have a beer” – as that will mean they’ve survived and it’s all over. To me, sitting in Cafe Gitane on Mott Street, having a fresh cucumber juice, a cappuccino and an orange blossom waffle with bananas, strawberries and maple syrup, will mean all of the difficulties of the past year are over. I will be in the busiest city in the world, in my favourite café, having something lovely. And everything will be all right.

  The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a very large branch. It sticks out from a base and is painted in all these lively colours and patterns. I got it on a trip to Essaouira, on the coast of Morocco. It was the first time I’ve ever shipped anything home from my travels. It took ages and was really complicated – but it did eventually arrive. I’ll always look at i