For three creative and party fuelled years, I lived in Nottingham, studying art at Trent University. I found the people of Nottingham to be warm, fun and more importantly very design conscience. So it comes as no surprise that their most famous son, the designer, Sir Paul Smith, is so highly respected there. The little shop on Byard Lane was a mecca for any self respecting Nottinghamite and on Saturday mornings the shop was packed.
Sir Paul Smith was born in Beeston in Nottinghamshire today, the 5th of July in 1946. At the tender age of 15, Paul left school with dreams of becoming a racing cyclist. Frogmarched to work at a local clothing warehouse by his father, at first, Paul was not interested in fashion at all. But when a terrible cycling accident occurred, his ambitions were thwarted and he spent six months recovering in hospital. It was then that he met a new group of friends. "Just by chance I met a lot of people from the art college and became interested in things like art and fashion," he recalled. "Back at the warehouse I started to make displays in the showroom. . .the boss was really impressed and he gave me all the buying to do for the men's wear when I was still only 17."*
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