An evening with Wayne Hemingway MBE - entrepreneur & fashion designer

A champion of design and sustainability, Wayne and his wife Gerardine received MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of 2006, for their services to the design industry.

Together they co-founded the iconic  fashion brand Red or Dead from a second-hand clothes market stall, into a globally celebrated label, and after two decades, sold it in a multi-million-pound .A new adventure then began with Hemingway Design, a multi-disciplinary, award-winning design studio. Their passion for sustainability, social responsibility and using design to improve lives, has encompassed work with a wide variety of clients, including Shelter, The National Trust and the Southbank Centre.

HemingwayDesign has since gone from strength to strength, working on a range of diverse and critically acclaimed culture-led regeneration projects, urban and interior design, council housing, multi-arts festivals, helping to rebuild Dreamland in Margate and co-designing

Transport for London uniforms. These projects have placed the studio as leaders in design that repurposes, rethinks and minimises waste.

More recently Wayne co-founded the CHARITY SUPER.MKT concept. Bringing new and relevant charity retail into the 21st century. This project uses existing town centre, vacant, retail spaces and transforms them into must-visit, purposeful destinations, selling 2nd hand fashion and accessories.

Wayne will join us to discuss his career, ethical fashion and the future of this rapidly evolving industry in this free public talk as part of our 170 series - celebrating 170 years of creative education in Hereford. 

This event is made possible due to The Elmley Foundation.