Inspired by all this talk of Mulberry, here’s our ‘10 Things You Need to Know’ about this fruitiest of fashion brands:

1. The Mulberry company was founded by Roger Saul and his mother Joan in Somerset in 1971.
2. The brand was initially inspired by founder Roger Saul’s vision of a luxury brand eschewing traditional English pursuits such as hunting, fishing and shooting.
3. The first Mulberry products for men were featured in a 1978 shoe collection.
4.  Famous fans of Mulberry include Kate Moss, Keira Knightley, Fearne Cotton and of course, Alexa Chung.
5. Mulberry handbags are crafted from a multitude of animal skins, including snake skin, ostrich skin, and even alligator to make up the perfect leather.
6. The brand is tied up with the Glastonbury festival through links with photographer Venetia Dearden and the ‘Peace Love Mud’ campaign.
7. Mulberry’s ‘Rookery’ factory is the largest operational handbag factory in the UK.
8. Mulberry was the name of a short lived BBC sitcom in the early 1990s.
9. There are also 9 towns in the USA named Mulberry, although we can’t speculate on how fashionable they are.
10. The Mulberry plant is famously name checked in the nursery rhyme ‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush’, but is also commonly used in contemporary American versions of ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’.

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