Wayne Andrew Hemingway (born 19 January 1961) is an English designer and co-founder of

Red or Dead Red or Dead is a fashion designer and manufacturer, started in London in 1982 by married couple Gerardine Hemingway and Wayne Hemingway. They design products such as shoes, spectacles, bags and watches. History In 1982, Wayne and Gerardine He ...

. He is also on the Design Council Trustee Board and having been with the

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(CABE) for a decade since its inception (as Chair of Building For Life) is now on the Design Council CABE Committee. Hemingway is a Professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton, Lancaster and Stafford, a Fellow of Blackburn College and a Senior Fellow of

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Early life and education

Hemingway was born in

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, Lancashire, the son of

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chief and former

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. His father left the family and returned to Canada when Wayne was three years old, but the two later resumed contact. Hemingway's earliest memories are of his mother and grandmother dressing him up as Elvis, a

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and being paraded up and down Morecambe pier.http://www.londonsdc.org/londonleaders/profile.aspx?ID=26 His grandfather worked at

Grimethorpe Grimethorpe is a large village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 4,672 at the 2011 census. Grimethorpe is located to the east of Barnsl ...

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as a civil engineer. He lived on Thirlmere Drive and attended Lancaster Road school. He later earned a scholarship at

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) is a co-educational free school in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Founded in 1509 as a boys' school, it is now a co-educational independent free school with over 1200 students from ages 4 to 18. Pupils ...

. In 1979 he completed a Degree in

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and

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University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

, and subsequently completed an MA in Fashion at the

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. On 25 June 2014, Wayne Hemingway and his wife, Gerardine Hemingway MBE, were made Honorary Senior Fellows of Regent's University London.

Work

Hemingway started his fashion career by selling items from his wardrobe, and that of his childhood sweetheart (now wife) Gerardine, in Kensington Market, London. They proved successful, and by the end of the year they had 16 stalls at the market, with shipments of second-hand clothing and footwear brought in from all over the world.http://www.redordead.com/history By 1983, they had opened a shop in

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, London, selling Gerardine's self-made clothes. That same year, the first Red or Dead collection was also created, inspired by Russian peasant clothing. It was well received and they obtained a large order from US department store

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. Red or Dead stores began to sell

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work-wear shoes as a fashion item, thus began a range of fashion shoes within the stores. Their Red or Dead brand went on to win the

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's Street style Award in 1995, 1996, and 1997. In 1998 Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway sold the Red or Dead company to

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a privately held, global brand management company. The sale financed Geraldine's design of their house in

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, West Sussex. The house cost around £330,000 to build and furnish (in 2005). In 1999 they set up 'HemingwayDesign', which specialises in affordable and social design. The highest profile project Homes. the Staiths South Bank, an 800 property mass market housing project on

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for

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Homes Award has won a series of high-profile awards, including the 2005 Housing Design Award for best large project and Building Magazine's "Best Housing-Led Regeneration Project" and the highest rating of any large-scale scheme in a recent CABE audit. Other major projects include The Bridge

Dartford Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located south-east of Central London and is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames estuary, is Thurrock in ...

, a development of 1,000 homes in

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. Hemingway has designed beachpods in

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for rent and sale, which raised over £1 million for the local authority. In 2010, he wrote the

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to the book ''Cycling in the North of England''. Hemingway's team organised a new cultural event in August 2010, the 'Vintage Festival'. In 2011, the festival took place at

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in London, as part of the 60th Anniversary of the

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(held originally in 1951), and again in 2012. In 2013, the Vintage Festival took place in

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and

. Hemingway said A Vintage New Year was held at Southbank Centre in 2013. October 2013 saw the launch of Vintage presents A Classic Car Boot Sale. In 2012, Wayne, Gerardine, and the 'HemingwayDesign' team were appointed as designers of the historic and disused Dreamland site in

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. This included the transformation and branding of the £10m heritage

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. In 2012, Hemingway received an honorary degree ('Doctor of Arts') from

Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The univ ...

. In 2014, Hemingway's company introduced a new London Underground staff uniform, initially trialled at several stations and train depots before being introduced company-wide in 2015. In the same year, it was announced he was to become patron of The Unite Foundation, a charity providing free university accommodation to young people in the UK from challenging backgrounds.

Family

Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway were both appointed MBE in 2006, for services to the design industry, in the

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. They live in Chichester, West Sussex and have four children - Jack, Tilly, Corey and Beck. They also have a springer spaniel called Minnie. Wayne is a supporter of

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and became an Honorary Patron of leading Blackburn Rovers supporters group, The BRFC Action Group, in May 2012. Hemingway has made several appearances on the

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TV show

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Bibliography

Wayne has also written a few design books. *''Kitsch (20th Century Icons)'', (Publisher)

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, 2 December 1999, *''Just Above The Mantelpiece: Mass-Market Masterpieces'', (Publisher) Booth-Clibborn Editions, 22 November 2002 *''Mass Market Classics: A Celebration of Everyday Design'', (Publisher) RotoVision, 29 August 2003, *''Cocktail Shakers Lava Lamps Tuppe'',(Publisher) Rockport Publishers Inc, 28 November 2003, *''Home Buyer S Guide Counter-pack, The: What to Look & Ask for When Buying a New Home'', (Publisher)

Black Dog Publishing Black Dog Publishing was a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photograp ...

, 1 July 2004, *''Richard Okon: Prefab Publisher'', (Publisher)

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, Nov 2006, *''Place to Live'' (with Gerardine), (Publisher) Quadrille Publishing, 5 September 2011, *''The Vintage Fashion Bible: The Complete Guide to Buying and Styling Vintage Fashion from the 1920s to 1990s'', (Publisher)

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Publishers, 30 September 2014,

References

External links

HemingwayDesign website
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Wayne Hemingway – A Master of Class in Career Advice

South Coast Design Forum

Wayne Hemingway talk as a part of the London Festival of Architecture

Wayne talks about his work in residential property, his home in West Sussex, and his views on design in a video interview with property portal Primelocation.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hemingway, Wayne 1961 births Living people English fashion designers People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn Alumni of the University of Surrey Alumni of University College London Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Morecambe People from Blackburn English people of Native American descent