Bella Freud

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Bella Freud (born April 17, 1961 in London, England) is a London-based fashion designer with a number of celebrity clients.

She is the daughter of artist Lucian Freud and great grand-daughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. As her father was notoriously prolific in his favours, Bella may have up to 40 half-siblings. Her only full sibling is her sister, writer Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippy childhood in Morocco, Hideous Kinky.

Bella started working for Vivienne Westwood during the 1980s before setting up her own design company. She also undertook consultancy work for the British fashion company Jaeger during the 1990s. In her most recent fashion quest she has been responsible for the relaunch and revamp of fashion house Biba.

In an appearance on the BBC current affairs program Newsnight on August 2 2006, Bella Freud voiced an impassioned denunciation of Israel's "disproportionately violent aggression" in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict, for which she has apparently received some criticism [1].

Bella Freud writes a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph free magazine Stella, called "Bella on Beauty". She recently partook in a fashion shoot with the closest of Vivienne Westwood's friends and clientelle, in which Bella was dressed in a gold boiler suit complete with pipe and hat.