Summer Edition 2019
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PROFILE<br />
Best friend Jenny Falconer and Fran Bacon<br />
we do is really tough. It’s<br />
unlucrative and unrewarding<br />
in so many ways, but the fun<br />
is having a creative vision and<br />
seeing it come to life”.<br />
There was no eureka moment<br />
that saw Webb launch her<br />
business. She describes herself as a serial entrepreneur<br />
with a million ideas a day. “I started in advertising and<br />
couldn’t find the big slouchy handbag of my dreams.<br />
I designed one in a striking metallic and it went very<br />
big very quickly, with stylists and celebrities. My<br />
career has rocketed from place to place ever since.”<br />
Design-wise, Webb loved Jonathan Saunders<br />
and treasures a ‘really beautiful woven dress done in<br />
“I will always<br />
work in print<br />
and colour<br />
and try and<br />
get everyone<br />
out of khaki<br />
and navy”<br />
incredible peacock green and purple’. But even<br />
Saunders’ talent couldn’t keep his label going.<br />
“Fashion is a really tough business in today’s<br />
changing times – look at Saunders and at<br />
recent casualty L.K.Bennett.” Webb employs a<br />
different business model to keep overheads low<br />
and is working with various collaborators from<br />
Uniqlo, Avon and QVC. “It’s survival. Everything<br />
has a shelf life and you’ve got to keep moving”.<br />
I ask Webb about the<br />
future and get an excited<br />
“Oooh!” in return. Her<br />
novel No Regrets will be<br />
published by Harper Collins<br />
in 2020, and she’s behind a<br />
podcast called Tabitha Talks<br />
during which she speaks to<br />
influencers. She’s also doing<br />
a series of special Podcasts just<br />
for designer outlet Bicester<br />
Village. A homewares range<br />
launches with QVC in the<br />
UK and the States, with a<br />
table top line in the Far East.<br />
At the same time as going<br />
global, Webb has a personal mission to bring a little<br />
colour to life closer to home. “I will always work in<br />
print and colour and try and get everyone out of<br />
khaki and navy – we all end up looking so uniform<br />
in our parkas. Colour lifts your mood. It’s so British<br />
to be in dark colours as we wander through the<br />
miserable weather. I say we should sprinkle some<br />
colour and sparkle among the misery!”.<br />
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