Cath Kidtson Ltd was founded in 1993 when Cath Kidston herself opened a small shop in Holland Park, London. She began by selling traditional English country house style vintage fabircs, wallpapers and brightly-painted junk furniture. Gradually Cath Kidston started designing her own products and prints, one of her first being an ironing board cover !! Practical yet quirky. http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/
Cath Kidston designs are extremely popular now and a lot of designers use her designs, fabircs, wallpapers, etc. It is the sense of longing for the past that has helped Cath Kidston designs with their popularity!! Nostaligia is all the rage at the moment!! Vintage this, retro that. Cath Kidston gave that sense of nostalgia, the sense of being in an old English Cottage deep in the countryside - all this with a fabric or wallpaper!! Imagine what she could do with sense of smell!!! ;)
Cath Kidston, a sense of Old English Nostalgia:
