PUTTING PRINGLE IN THE PINK

FRAN STRINGER, from Middlesbrough, worked at topshop, Acquascutum and Mulberry before joining Pringle, the world’s oldest fashion house, and was promoted to head of womenswear last year.

her debut was very successful, with fashion arbiter suzy Menkes of vogue saying she ‘got everything right’. Down-to- earth stringer cried when she heard.

As she herself says: ‘it’s sometimes an overwhelming task. Basically every person i know has a jumper — and we [Pringle] pretty much invented that.’

FAMILY MATTERS:

Daughter of an architect and a reflexologist, stringer is intensely private. she has a daughter, indigo, five, and is about to have another baby with her web developer boyfriend.

FASHION NOTES:

she knew Pringle from childhood because her brothers would go clubbing in the brand’s pink jumpers.

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY:

too early to say. Pringle was recently bought by the hong Kong-based Fang family but has yet to make them a profit.