Jade Abigail Holland Cooper (born 1986) is a British fashion designer.

Early life

Her father, Oliver Cooper, is a farmer in

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, and her mother, Miranda (''née'' Holland), worked in London and Paris as a designer, making clothes for

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, amongst others. She was born on the family farm, Manor Farm, in Elmsett, near Hadleigh. Oliver Cooper grew up on Great Bricett Hall Farm, including the

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farmhouse Great Bricett Hall in the village of

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, Suffolk. It was home to his father Rupert Cooper, who died in October 2017, aged 96. The estate, including 415 acres of land, was listed for sale in June 2018 at £4.65 million. She was educated at

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, then studied international equine and agriculture management at the

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, but dropped out to start a career in fashion.

Career

In 2008, she founded the fashion label Holland Cooper. She started by having an outworker employed by her mother make 30 tweed miniskirts, with leather and suede additions, which she found in her mother's old design studio in a farm outbuilding, and sold them all from a stall at

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Personal life

In August 2018, she married

Julian Dunkerton Julian Marc Dunkerton (born March 1965) is a British businessman, and the co-founder of the fashion label Superdry. Early life Dunkerton's father Ivor and stepmother Susie founded and ran Dunkertons Organic Cider. Dunkerton moved to Herefordsh ...

, co-founder of

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. They have two children, Saphaïa Isabella Dunkerton, born November 2020, and Jamie Dunkerton, born December 2022. In 2021, she was one of the guests at Lady Kitty Spencer's wedding.

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British fashion designers 1987 births Living people People educated at Ipswich High School, Suffolk People from Hadleigh, Suffolk {{UK-business-bio-1980s-stub