Fashion: Designer Famed for Daring to Be Different ; Sunderland-Born Gareth Pugh has Been Causing a Stir in the Fashion World for a While. Now He's Been Nominated for One of Its Top Awards. Hannah Davies Finds Out More.

The Journal › November 24, 2007

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SINCE he burst onto the scene, Gareth Pugh has been famed for unwearable clothes, razor-sharp cheekbones and a penchant for hanging out with East London club kids.

But his extreme designs, with hints of S&M and fetish, are lauded by fashion luminaries as high as the Ice Queen herself, Anna Wintour, editor of US Vogue and celebrities such as Kylie Minogue.

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Fashion: Designer Famed for Daring to Be Different ; Sunderland-Born Gareth Pugh has Been Causing a Stir in the Fashion World for a While. Now He's Been Nominated for One of Its Top Awards. Hannah Davies Finds Out More.

This Tuesday, the British Fashion Council will decide whether to give Gareth their New Designer award which every year goes to "an innovative and directional designer who, in the past year, has emerged as an inf...

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