{"id":60130,"date":"2025-04-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smagazineofficial.com\/?p=60130"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:46:36","slug":"bella-freud-reflects-on-the-psychology-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smagazineofficial.com\/art-culture\/bella-freud-reflects-on-the-psychology-of-style-040460130","title":{"rendered":"Bella Freud Reflects on the Psychology of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“When I was growing up, it was absolutely not talked about.\u201d For much of her life, Bella Freud<\/a> treated her famous last name as little more than a footnote. The great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and daughter of painter Lucian Freud, she built her own identity in fashion with her eponymous independent fashion label known for its fine knitwear and witty designs, shaped in part by her mentor, the late Vivienne Westwood. From her father, she inherited an unshakable commitment to craft. But the weight of the Freud name? It hit her in her 20s, when she was living in Italy and strangers\u2014upon hearing her surname\u2014would ask her to psychoanalyze them, assuming that the legacy of her great-grandfather had somehow been passed down. <\/p>