{{short description|English designer}} {{Distinguish|Wayne Hemingway (politician)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2010}} {{Infobox fashion designer | image = Wayne Hemingway New Adventures.jpg | caption = Hemingway in 2013 | name = Wayne Hemingway | honorific_suffix = MBE | birth_name = Wayne Andrew Hemingway | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|1|19}} | birth_place = Morecambe, England | death_date = | death_place = | education = | label_name = Red or Dead | father = Billy Two Rivers | awards = | }}
'''Wayne Andrew Hemingway''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born 19 January 1961)<ref name="Birth details at freebmd.org.uk">{{cite web |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=222703515:9905&d=bmd_1672866285&scan=1 |title=Entry Information |website=FreeBMD |access-date=19 February 2023}}</ref> is an English designer and co-founder of Red or Dead.<ref name=reddead/> He is also on the Design Council Trustee Board<ref>Design Council Trustee Board</ref> and having been with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (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 Regent's University London.
==Early life and education== Hemingway was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, the son of Mohawk chief and former wrestler Billy Two Rivers.<ref name=family>{{cite news |first=Tina |last=Jackson |title=Wayne Hemingway: My family values |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/08/wayne-hemingway-my-family-values |date=8 April 2013 |access-date=5 February 2014 |location=London}}</ref> His father left the family and returned to Canada when Wayne was three years old, but the two later resumed contact.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/1.467679 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724082334/http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/1.467679 |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 July 2012 |title=Red Indian's Son in Style Pow-Wow |newspaper=The Cumberland News |date=23 November 2004 |access-date=26 July 2009}}</ref>
Hemingway's earliest memories are of his mother and grandmother dressing him up as Elvis, a Beatle or Tarzan and being paraded up and down Morecambe pier.<ref name=waynehistory>{{cite web |url=http://www.londonsdc.org/londonleaders/profile.aspx?ID=26 |title=Wayne Hemingway MBE |website=London Sustainable Development Commission |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525114548/http://www.londonsdc.org/londonleaders/profile.aspx?ID=26 |archive-date=2010-05-25}}</ref> His grandfather worked at Grimethorpe colliery as a civil engineer.<ref name=family/> He lived on Thirlmere Drive and attended Lancaster Road school.<ref name=visitor>{{cite news |title=Wayne plays the regeneration game |newspaper=The Visitor |url=http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news/local/wayne-plays-the-regeneration-game-1-1216243 |date=28 January 2004 |access-date=16 January 2014 |location=Morecambe}}</ref> He later earned a scholarship at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/business/wayne-hemingway-design-fashion-red-or-dead-b1452852.html |title=Wayne Hemingway on how his working-class roots helped him in fashion |first=Andy |last=Martin |date=2020-11-08 |website=The Independent |language=en |access-date=2020-11-10}}</ref> In 1982 he completed a Degree in Geography and Town Planning at University College London,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/browse/ne/uninews/archive/2005news/437877?view=Standard&news=archive |title=Wayne Hemmingway – "they call me a designer" |date=21 November 2005 |website=Northumbria University |access-date=5 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222062010/http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/browse/ne/uninews/archive/2005news/437877?view=Standard&news=archive |archive-date=2014-02-22}}</ref> and subsequently completed an MA in Fashion at the University of Surrey.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=HEMINGWAY, Wayne Andrew |title=Who's Who 2016 |publisher=A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc |date=2016}}</ref>
==Work== Hemingway started his fashion career by selling items from his wardrobe, and that of his childhood sweetheart (now wife) Gerardine, in Camden Market.<ref name=waynehistory/> It was such a success that Gerardine opened a stall in the Kensington market, selling clothes she produced from a sewing machine on-site.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://seeninthecity.co.uk/2017/05/26/wayne-hemingway-interview/ |title=An interview with Wayne Hemingway the Co-Founder of House of Hemingway |first=Mark |last=Lee-Falcon |date=May 26, 2017 |website=Seen in The City}}</ref> {{cquote |It was £6 rent for the stall and we took £80 the first day. It just took off from there.<ref name=bbcwayne>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2420509.stm |work=BBC News |first=Chris |last=Jones |title=Wayne Hemingway: Earnest about design |date=8 November 2002}}</ref>}} 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.<ref name=reddead>{{cite web |url=http://www.redordead.com/history |title=History |website=Red or Dead |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725022510/http://www.redordead.com/history |archive-date=2008-07-25}}</ref>
By 1983, they had opened a shop in Kensington, 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 the US department store Macy's. Red or Dead stores began to sell Dr. Martens work-wear shoes as a fashion item, and thus began a range of fashion shoes within the stores.<ref name=reddead /> Their Red or Dead brand went on to win the British Fashion Council's Street style Award in 1995, 1996, and 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fashionawards.com/Archive |title=Archive |website=The Fashion Awards |language=en |access-date=2018-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911203032/http://www.fashionawards.com/Archive |archive-date=2018-09-11}}</ref> In 1998 Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway sold the Red or Dead company to Pentland Group a privately held, global brand management company.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/profile-waynes-world-1295633.html |title=Profile: Wayne's world |work=The Independent |access-date=2018-09-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> The sale financed Gerardine's design of their house in Chichester, West Sussex.<ref name=youthambassador>{{cite news |first=Anna |last=Tyzack |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/my-perfect-weekend/10577161/My-perfect-weekend-Wayne-Hemingway-designer-and-youth-ambassador.html |title=My perfect weekend: Wayne Hemingway, designer and youth ambassador |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 January 2014 |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref> The house cost around £330,000 to build and furnish (in 2005).<ref>{{cite news |first=Charlotte |last=Abrahams |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/nov/19/homes3 |title=Access all areas |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 November 2005 |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref>
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 Tyneside for Taylor Wimpey Homes<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.startups.co.uk/wayne-hemingway_1.html |title=Wayne Hemingway |website=Startups |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929010907/http://www.startups.co.uk/wayne-hemingway_1.html |archive-date=2011-09-29}}</ref> Award has won a series of high-profile awards, including the 2005 Housing Design Award for best large project<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hdawards.org/archive/2005/complete/thestai.html |title=The Staiths, Gateshead |website=Housing Design Awards |year=2005 |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref> and Building Magazine's "Best Housing-Led Regeneration Project"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.building.co.uk/best-housing-led-regeneration-project/3059808.article |title=Best housing-led regeneration project |website=Building |date=2 December 2005 |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref> and the highest rating of any large-scale scheme in a recent CABE audit.<ref name=waynehistory /> Other major projects include The Bridge Dartford, a development of 1,000 homes in Kent.<ref>{{cite news |title=Viewpoint: Wayne Hemingway |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2007/03/26/thames_gateway_viewpoint_hemingway_feature.shtml |date=26 March 2007 |work=BBC News |access-date=22 April 2014}}</ref>
He designed the Pure Bug digital radio receiver.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PURE Digital Bug Too: Look into my eyes! |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/pure-digital-bug-too-look-into-my-eyes/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref>
Hemingway has designed beachpods in Boscombe for rent and sale, which raised over £1 million for the local authority.<ref>{{cite news |title=Third of Boscombe's Hemingway beach pods still unsold |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-25756921 |work=BBC News |access-date=5 February 2015 |date=21 January 2014}}</ref>
Hemingway's team organised a cultural event in August 2010, the Vintage Festival. In 2011, the festival took place at Southbank Centre in London, as part of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain (held originally in 1951), and again in 2012. In 2013, the Vintage Festival took place in Glasgow<ref name=merchant>{{cite web |url=http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=9695 |title=Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway's vintage festival set to make a Scottish debut at Glasgow's Merchant City Festival |website=Glasgow City Council |date=February 2013 |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref> and Morecambe. Hemingway said {{cquote |We loved visiting Glasgow when we had our Red or Dead shop on Buchanan Street and have always enjoyed visiting Glasgow's Merchant City.<ref name=merchant/>}} A Vintage New Year was held at Southbank Centre in 2013. October 2013 saw the launch of Vintage presents A Classic Car Boot Sale.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vintagefestival.co.uk/events/classic-car-boot-sale-15th-16th-march-2014 |title=Vintage presents the Classic Car Boot Sale at the Southbank Centre, London 15th & 16th March 2014 |website=Vintage Festival |year=2013 |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=primary source|date=May 2025}}
In 2012, Wayne, Gerardine, and the HemingwayDesign team were appointed as designers of the historic and disused Dreamland site in Margate. This included the transformation and branding of the £10m heritage theme park.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-20230338 |title=Margate Dreamland: Wayne Hemingway to design new site |work=BBC News |date=7 November 2012 |access-date=2 May 2013}}</ref>
In 2012, Hemingway received an honorary degree (Doctor of Arts) from Leeds Metropolitan University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/news/red-or-dead-founder-receives-university-honour25072012.htm?type=external |title=Red or Dead founder receives University honour |website=Leeds Metropolitan University |date=25 July 2012 |access-date=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223101120/http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/news/red-or-dead-founder-receives-university-honour25072012.htm?type=external |archive-date=23 February 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theres-new-tube-uniform-might-4558315 |title=There's a new Tube uniform and it might just hurt your eyes |website=Daily Mirror |date=3 November 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unitefoundation.co.uk/ |title=Home |website=Unite Foundation}}</ref>
==Family== Hemingway and his wife live in Chichester, West Sussex and have four children - Jack, Tilly, Corey and Beck.<ref name="family" /> They also have a springer spaniel called Minnie.
Wayne is a supporter of Blackburn Rovers<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/3821117.Claret_banned_by_Blackburn_Rovers_supporting__designer/ |title=Burnley's Claret colour banned by Blackburn Rovers-supporting designer |last=Humphreys |first=Jemma |date=6 November 2008 |newspaper=Lancashire Telegraph |access-date=7 March 2013}}</ref> and became an Honorary Patron of leading Blackburn Rovers supporters group, The BRFC Action Group, in May 2012.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
Hemingway has made several appearances on the Sky Sports 2 TV show Soccer AM.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/VqS_aiNostM |title=It's called the butt |date=30 November 2007 |website=YouTube |access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref>
==Recognition== Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway were both appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours, for services to the design and fashion industries.<ref>UK list: {{London Gazette |date=17 June 2006 |issue=58014 |pages=18 |supp=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.staffs.ac.uk/about_us/about_the_university/doctors/2008/wayne_hemingway_and_gerardine_hemingway.jsp |title=Wayne Hemingway MBE and Gerardine Hemingway MBE |website=Staffordshire University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716035409/http://www.staffs.ac.uk/about_us/about_the_university/doctors/2008/wayne_hemingway_and_gerardine_hemingway.jsp |archive-date=2009-07-16}}</ref>
He was made an honorary Fellow of the University of Chichester in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chi.ac.uk/alumni/honorary-awards/|title=Graduation|publisher=University of Chichester|access-date=24 May 2025}}</ref> On 25 June 2014, Wayne and Gerardine were made Honorary Senior Fellows of Regent's University London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.regents.ac.uk/news/archived-news/university-honours-affordable-design-champions |title=University honours affordable design champions |website=Regent's University London |language=en |access-date=2018-09-03}}</ref>
==Bibliography== Wayne has also written eight design books. *''Kitsch (20th Century Icons)'', (Publisher) Absolute Press, 2 December 1999, {{ISBN|978-1899791972}} *''Just Above The Mantelpiece: Mass-Market Masterpieces'', (Publisher) Booth-Clibborn Editions, 22 November 2002 {{ISBN|978-1861541949}} *''Mass Market Classics: A Celebration of Everyday Design'', (Publisher) RotoVision, 29 August 2003, {{ISBN|978-2880467340}} *''Cocktail Shakers Lava Lamps Tuppe'',(Publisher) Rockport Publishers Inc, 28 November 2003, {{ISBN|978-1592530458}} *''Home Buyers Guide Counter-pack, The: What to Look & Ask for When Buying a New Home'', (Publisher) Black Dog Publishing, 1 July 2004, {{ISBN|978-1904772125}} *''Richard Okon: Prefab Publisher'', (Publisher) Photographers' Gallery, Nov 2006, {{ISBN|978-0907879770}} *''Place to Live'' (with Gerardine), (Publisher) Quadrille Publishing, 5 September 2011, {{ISBN|978-1844008193}} *''The Vintage Fashion Bible: The Complete Guide to Buying and Styling Vintage Fashion from the 1920s to 1990s'', (Publisher) David & Charles Publishers, 30 September 2014, {{ISBN|978-1446304426}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.hemingwaydesign.co.uk/ HemingwayDesign website] * {{fashiondesigner|id=wayne-hemingway}} * [http://www.theemployable.com/index.php/2012/07/05/wayne-hemingway-a-master-class/ Wayne Hemingway – A Master of Class in Career Advice] * [http://www.scdf.org.uk/ South Coast Design Forum] * [http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=281 Wayne Hemingway talk as a part of the London Festival of Architecture] * [http://www.primelocation.com/articles/wayne-hemingway-interview/ 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]
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