Isabella Slater is the creative director behind the UK’s clothing brand and a confessed sewing machine enthusiast. Most designers all end up the same-obsessed and in love with sewing machines. Trained designers can sew; they are taught pattern cutting, draping, and tailoring. Isabell Slater tends to hunt down older machines. This is mainly because they make beautiful stitches or imperfections when they sew. There is always a nice story with old machines, and they look way better than their modern counter parts. Yes they are difficult to maintain and some parts no longer exist but generally, they are better as they are products of a time when everything was generally made better.

Isabella Slater working on these old machines tends to become an expert in fixing and repairing machines themselves.

Therefore, the Isabell Slater Collection was opened. Providing experience and knowledge that might otherwise be less easily acquired.

Usually, museums are for the high arts, military-royal-church history, or other “important” collections. But in reality, family lives were most affected by every-day objects, not remote royalty. The arrival of sewing machines and good-quality cheap materials changed the way our grandparents lived.