Edina’s first knitwear collection – shown at London Designer Collections, the forerunner of London Fashion Week – was an instant success, with all the important British fashion retailers eager to get hold of the beautiful hand knitted fairisles. By her third collection, Edina’s designs had become a firm favourite and were sold in stores all over the world including Browns, Liberty and Harrods in London, Barney’s and Bloomingdales in New York, and Printemps in Paris.
Her collections received multiple nominations for the prestigious British Fashion Awards throughout the 80s and 90s, confirming her position as a designer with both British heritage and international appeal. A collaboration with "Designers at Debenhams' was one of the department stores most successful for many years, allowing her to bring her designs to a much wider audience.
She has dressed some of the most elegant and beautiful women in the world from Royalty to red carpet stars, including The Princess of Wales, Twiggy, Jerry Hall, Queen Camilla, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson and Kate Moss, amongst many others.
With a career spanning more than five decades, Edina Ronay has built a reputation not only as a designer of timeless luxury fashion but also as a champion of British craftsmanship and artisanal production. Her work consistently celebrates natural fibres, heritage textiles and meticulous hand finishing. All pieces are still made exclusively in the UK by highly skilled women, as they always have been.
“Fashion for me is about originality, style and quality, I have always strived to create classic pieces that will last a lifetime and continue to do so with my collections, utilising the very best British workmanship” - Edina Ronay
