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Hope Macaulay & family on celebrity cardigans, viral lockdown fame and her Granny Margaret.

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BBC Radio Ulster - The Culture Cafe, Hope Macaulay & family on celebrity cardigans, viral lockdown fame and her Granny Margaret.

Marie-Louise Muir is joined by North Coast textiles designer Hope Macaulay and her family.

Everyone from Billie Piper to Gigi Hadid is wearing a Hope Macaulay knitwear. Marie-Louise Muir invited Hope and her family, dad Tony, mum Leslie, and Granny Margaret in.

North coast of Northern Ireland textile designer Hope Macaulay's knitwear went viral during Lockdown and quickly found her creations on glossy magazine front pages and influencers' social media feeds. Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka wore one of her knits on the cover of GQ, actor Billie Piper wore one on the tv show "I Hate Susie Too", and American model Gigi Hadid was photographed wearing a Hope Macaulay coming out of a supermarket! Hope comes into The Culture Cafe to talk about her journey from student fashion to global designer all from her home in Portstewart. She is also joined by her dad, writer of "Paperboy" and "Breadboy" Tony Macaulay, her mum Leslie who is passionate about design and works for Hope and her granny, Margaret, who taught Leslie to knit.

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