TEESSIDE fashion stylish Kate Fearnley will be arrogantly exhausting one of her own creations when she attends a top London awards ceremony. The 33-year-old’s designs have already been seen on many red carpets worn by singers, soap stars and models. And tomorrow it will be Kate’s turn to take centre stage when she will discover if she has been named Ultimate Young Fashion Entrepreneur at Cosmopolitan magazine’s Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards 2009. The first celebrity Kate exhausting clothes was Pop Idol star Zoe Birkett, and former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson also started buying her designs. Among her fashion fans designer Kate can count Katie Price, Pixie Lott, Alexandra Burke, Colleen Rooney and Zoe Salmon. Kate, from Saltburn, who has her flagship boutique on Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough, has come a lengthened way since manufacture her clothes in a small warehouse in Billingham. In 2002, after graduating from Northumbria University she started her own business when she had the opening to buy some equipment and was awarded £1,000 from the Prince’s Trust and Business Link. “I went on the road with my collection and had to try and get shops interested,” she said. Things started moving when she had attention from a Manchester boutique which began to stock her clothes. “In three or four years it grew and I had seven people working for me. In the fourth year we moved to this construction which has been in my family for two generation. “It was my dad’s and my grandad’s before that. My dad wanted to retire and I needed more space, when he said he was selling it I bought the building from him.” And now her dresses are stocked at 80 boutiques across the nation, a few in Europe and she is commencement to get attention from Australia. Kate said she was thrilled to be going to the Cosmopolitan Awards. “It wasn’t until I got the request to go to the awards rite that it hit me – it’s a huge deal and I’m very privileged and keyed up about it,” she said.

TEESSIDE fashion stylish Kate Fearnley will be arrogantly exhausting one of her own creations when she attends a top London awards ceremony. The 33-year-old’s designs have already been seen on many red carpets worn by singers, soap stars and models. And tomorrow it will be Kate’s turn to take centre stage when she will discover if she has been named Ultimate Young Fashion Entrepreneur at Cosmopolitan magazine’s Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards 2009. The first celebrity Kate exhausting clothes was Pop Idol star Zoe Birkett, and former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson also started buying her designs. Among her fashion fans designer Kate can count Katie Price, Pixie Lott, Alexandra Burke, Colleen Rooney and Zoe Salmon. Kate, from Saltburn, who has her flagship boutique on Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough, has come a lengthened way since manufacture her clothes in a small warehouse in Billingham. In 2002, after graduating from Northumbria University she started her own business when she had the opening to buy some equipment and was awarded £1,000 from the Prince’s Trust and Business Link. “I went on the road with my collection and had to try and get shops interested,” she said. Things started moving when she had attention from a Manchester boutique which began to stock her clothes. “In three or four years it grew and I had seven people working for me. In the fourth year we moved to this construction which has been in my family for two generation. “It was my dad’s and my grandad’s before that. My dad wanted to retire and I needed more space, when he said he was selling it I bought the building from him.” And now her dresses are stocked at 80 boutiques across the nation, a few in Europe and she is commencement to get attention from Australia. Kate said she was thrilled to be going to the Cosmopolitan Awards. “It wasn’t until I got the request to go to the awards rite that it hit me – it’s a huge deal and I’m very privileged and keyed up about it,” she said.