Edeline Lee

Early life and education

Edeline Lee was born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with First Class Joint Honors at McGill University in 1999. She completed her Foundation in Arts and Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2000 and in 2006 graduated with a First from Central Saint Martins with a BA (Honours) Fashion Design Womenswear.

Career

In between her degrees, Edeline Lee apprenticed in the studios of Alexander McQueen in London and John Galliano in Paris. She also trained at Conock & Lockie under the former Head Cutter of H. Huntsman & Sons of Savile Row in traditional methods of bespoke tailoring. She dropped out of Central Saint Martins to work as an Assistant Designer to Zac Posen in New York for two years. She returned to Central Saint Martins to finish her degree and then worked as Head Designer for Rodnik in London. She then consulted for various companies.

Label

In 2013, Lee was commissioned by jeweller Cora Sheibani to design a collection on which to display her jewellery. This accidental soft launch led to a flurry of private orders and the birth of her eponymous collection. It was discovered by Hamish Bowles, reviewed in Vogue and Women’s Wear Daily, written up by the New York Times and chosen as one of Harper’s Bazaar’s 10 Favorite Things and one of Vogue Italia’s Talents. Her work has been covered extensively in the press since.

Edeline Lee has received strong support from the women of the art world, who naturally gravitate towards her aesthetically sophisticated signature of structured, feminine shapes, clean modernist lines, and precise attention to craftsmanship. She has gained international recognition for her fashion presentations which have the immersive quality of film and live performance. Her work was recently exhibited by the curators of the Fashion Space Gallery to represent the “Future of Fashion Presentation”.

Edeline Lee is also a regular contributor to Style.com’s Video Fashion Week and Guest Editor for Stiletto Magazine. Edeline Lee was awarded a New Fashion Pioneer by the Centre for Fashion Enterprise and is twice a Finalist for the prestigious Samsung Fashion & Design Fund. In 2016, Edeline was nominated for Breakthrough Womenwear Designer of the Year by WGSN. In 2017, Edeline was awarded a British Fashion Council Fashion Trust grant, and is a finalist for the Mercedes Benz Etoiles prize. All Edeline Lee pieces are made by hand in England of fabrics woven in Italy, France and Austria.

Her work has been worn by Taylor Swift, Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway, Rebecca Hall, Solange Knowles, Livia Firth, Alicia Vikander, Paloma Faith, Roisin Murphy, Pixie Lott, and Eve.

Her collection is sold at shops such as Penelope, Espejto, Jean Pierre Bua, Maison BO-M, More Is Love, The Store x Soho House, The Sprezzatura, Mouki-Mou, Harvey Nichols, Moda Operandi, Browns, Ikram and Kiosk.