Fashion designer turned interiors guru MATTHEW WILLIAMSON on why these days he prefers dressing walls to It-girls By Victoria Gray For You Magazine Published: 03:01 EDT, 26 October 2024 | Updated: 03:01 EDT, 26 October 2024 e-mail View comments With his jet-set meets boho-chic style, Matthew Williamson was one of the most fêted fashion designers of the 1990s. The likes of Jade Jagger , Kate Moss and Sienna Miller rocked his colourful and embellished pieces. Today, Williamson’s fashion doors are closed after he and Joseph Velosa, his partner of 30 years, pivoted into the world of interior design, swapping dressing people for dressing houses.
Fashion designer turned interiors guru Matthew Williamson tells Victoria Gray why these days he prefers dressing walls to It-girls It’s a move that has paid off, with Williamson having just won the interiors industry’s equivalent of an Oscar – the highly coveted Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year award (past victors of the gong include Kelly Hoppen, Nicky Haslam and Kit Kemp). King of colour: at Williamson’s home in Belsize Park, North London, the walls are painted in his favourite Lido Pink (picklesonpaint.com).
‘It is more forgiving than white, cosier than beige and more optimistic than grey,’ he says So what sparked Williamson’s decision to turn his back on the catwalk almost a decade ago? ‘The repetitive nature of fashion had started to wear thin – I was starting to get a feeling of Groundho.