Jade Holland Cooper

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Jade Holland Cooper
Born
Jade Abigail Cooper

December 1986 [1]
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Education Ipswich High School for Girls
Alma mater Royal Agricultural College (dropped out)
OccupationFashion designer
Spouse
(m. 2018)
Children2

Jade Abigail Holland Cooper (born 1986) is a British fashion designer. [2] [3] [4]

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Early life

Her father, Oliver Cooper, is a farmer in Suffolk, and her mother, Miranda (née Holland), worked in London and Paris as a designer, making clothes for Elton John, amongst others. [4] [2] [5] She was born on the family farm, Manor Farm, in Elmsett, near Hadleigh. [6] [7]

Oliver Cooper grew up on Great Bricett Hall Farm, including the grade I listed farmhouse Great Bricett Hall in the village of Great Bricett, Suffolk. [7] It was home to his father Rupert Cooper, who died in October 2017, aged 96. [8] [9] The estate, including 415 acres of land, was listed for sale in June 2018 at £4.65 million. [7]

She was educated at Ipswich High School for Girls, then studied international equine and agriculture management at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, but dropped out to start a career in fashion. [4] [2]

Career

In 2008, she founded the fashion label Holland Cooper. [6]

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 Badminton Horse Trials. [5]

Personal life

In August 2018, she married Julian Dunkerton, co-founder of Superdry. [10]

They have two children, Saphaïa Isabella Dunkerton, born November 2020, and Jamie Dunkerton, born December 2022. [11]

In 2021, she was one of the guests at Lady Kitty Spencer's wedding. [12]

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