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Lisa Comfort is something of a household name among the sewing community. Her story began at the age of 11, when Mrs Robinson, Lisa’s childminder, taught her to sew. Growing up near York in the eighties and nineties, Lisa continued making her own clothes throughout her teenage years, loving the freedom it gave her. “I was really inspired by elegant, vintage style,” she says, “and definitely used to get funny looks walking around my Yorkshire village in my beret collection!”
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Lisa didn’t intend for her love of sewing to become anything more than a hobby, choosing to study languages at university. As part of the Erasmus programme, she spent a year in Perugia, Italy. “Whilst I was there, I also took a tailoring course and fell in love with the whole couture world,” Lisa explains. “It eventually led me to enrolling at the London College of Fashion, after which I got a job working for the designers Bruce Oldfield, and then Phillipa Lepley, the
