AWARDS
TEXTILE SPONSORSHIP: Harris Tweed Hebredes + Bernstein & Banleys 2026
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Beatrice Saunders is a designer who uses print and textiles to explore contemporary ideas of value, taste, and consumption. Working across a wide variety of fabrics, colours, and surface treatments, her work investigates how luxury aesthetics are transformed through mass production, questioning the boundaries between exclusivity and excess. Through bold print development and experimental textile applications, she challenges conventional perceptions of refinement, embracing visual contradiction and the cultural language of “bad taste” as a deliberate design tool.

Saunders creative approach combines layered patterns, exaggerated colour palettes, faux fur, and animal prints to create textiles that feel both playful and confrontational. Often associated with ideas of tackiness and excess, these materials and motifs are recontextualised within her work as symbols of artificial luxury and performative femininity. Drawing inspiration from consumer culture, imitation luxury, and trend-driven fashion, Saunders examines how desirability changes once objects become commercially accessible. Her work references hyper-feminine aesthetics, ornamentation, and excess as both a celebration and critique of constructed ideals of glamour. The tension between opulence and artificiality sits at the centre of her practice, resulting in designs that blur the line between sophistication and excess.