Renowned Pattern Cutter Edmund Freeman Dies

Famed ladies fashion pattern cutter Edmund Freeman, born 1939, has died, aged 82. The London based pattern cutter began his career in the fashion industry at the age of 15 in 1955, where he joined his father’s ladies tailoring business as an apprentice.

Drapers Online reports that Freeman later on to join his uncle’s childrenswear manufacturing firm, through which he formed his own children’s clothing company and manufacturing factory in Deal, Kent.

Freeman sent three years working at the factory before he decided to make a move to pattern and design cutting. He worked during the 1960s and early 1970s, working to hone his skills in a variety of grader and cutting roles for clothing brands such as Alexon, Leslie Gordon and Reginald Bernstein.

He then spent a few years between 1979 and 1981 lecturing in pattern cutting, as well as freelance pattern cutting work and quality control positions for British fashion designers John Bates, Paul Golding and Vivienne Purcell.

From 1983 to 1990, he held pattern cutter, toilist, and quality control positions at high-end fashion designers, including Arabella Pollen, Jean Muir and the Queen’s designer Hardy Amies.

From the early 1990s until 1994, Freeman went to work freelance for designers such as Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Victor Risato, before going to work full-time for British designer Lindka Cierach.

He returned to Alexon as a senior pattern cutter in January 1995, where he continued to work until his retirement.

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