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Rosa Bloom’s glowing Glastonbury debut
A talented Swindon designer made her mark at Britain’s largest festival at the end of June, displaying her
burlesque garments and jewellery in a wonderfully eye-catching shop.
Rosa Hirsch-Holland from Shaw trading as
Rosa Bloom was exclusively featured in the May
Link, preparing for the big event.
She used to make fairy wings but has set up her
own business designing costumes and unique
jewellery made for her by artisans in Bali.
Rosa is delighted by the reaction to her busi-
ness. “The Bloom Boudoir received such a posi-
tive response from people at Glastonbury - they
just seemed so appreciative of the effort I’d put
into making the shop a lovely space to walk into. I
was told on more than one occasion that it was
the most beautiful shop in the whole festival.
“The brightly-dyed wedding dresses sold really
well, and people were walking out of the shop
wearing them, and then just keeping them on
for the whole weekend and coming back to visit
me, which was so lovely.
“My aim all along was to get people dressing
up extravagantly at festivals and I definitely feel I
succeeded. A lovely moment from the weekend
was when a woman came in and bought her
dream wedding dress which she is actually going
to get married in. She met her husband-to-be at
Glastonbury in 2005, when they were both work-
ing on the recycling team. It seemed very fitting
that she was now going to marry him wearing a
recycled wedding dress from Glastonbury.”
Rosa is spending the summer touring festivals
across Britain before returning to Swindon to
design new bloomers, bustles and bodices and
to plan another trip to Bali to commission more
garments.
www.rosabloom.com Photo: Jess North

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