Labour star hits back after she wore £3,500 designer clothes
Labour star hits back at criticism after she wore £3,500 designer clothes for a photoshoot about her modest upbringing in the North East
- Labour’s Bridget Phillipson she will ‘make no apology for looking smart for work’
A rising star in the Labour Party yesterday hit back at criticism after she wore designer clothes worth almost £3,500 for a glossy magazine photoshoot.
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson posed for the pictures to accompany an interview about her modest upbringing in the North East.
‘I make no apology for looking smart for work, for making an impression, for wearing clothes of which I never dreamt in childhood,’ she wrote on social media.
‘I enjoy fashion. Good things should be for everyone.’
Ms Phillipson, 39, had come under fire online for wearing a £1,900 elegant black ‘sweetheart’ dress from American brand St John, favoured by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Kate Winslet.
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson (pictured) hit back at criticism after she wore designer clothes worth almost £3,500 for a glossy magazine photoshoot
She paired this with £300 hoop earrings from Mejuri and completed the look with £158 gold woven leather mules from Reiss.
Ms Phillipson is one of Sir Keir Starmer’s most trusted allies and, unlike the Labour leader, refused to serve under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.
She sported the expensive designer pieces for a series of glitzy photographs to go alongside an interview about her background.
The Labour MP’s second outfit included a £795 red off-shoulder midi dress from French designer Roland Mouret – an A-list favourite whose dresses have been worn by the Princess of Wales.
This was accompanied by £105 gold-plated ovate hoop earrings from Missoma and finished off with black leather heels, also from Reiss, with similar pairs going for £198.
Ms Phillipson, who is from Washington, Tyne and Wear, was raised in a single-parent household in the former mining town.
In her interview, she discussed how she grew up on free school meals and was bullied because of her family’s severe poverty.
She told The Times magazine: ‘We had no upstairs heating; the windows were rotten. I would go to bed in the winter fully clothed. It felt like an area that was on the slide and increasingly crime was on the up.’
But she said that, despite this, her mother always made sure she was neatly dressed, adding: ‘Because we felt that sense of judgment about what it was to be a single- parent family, my mum was absolutely fanatical about making sure I was well turned out – nicely brushed hair, plaits, decent clothes, proper shoes.’
Ms Phillipson, an Oxford graduate, was first elected as Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2010.
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