Bella Freud Bella Freud Bella Freud (born 17 April 1961) is a London-based fashion designer. Freud was born in London, England. She is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and artist Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Her only full sibling is her sister, writer Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippie childhood in Morocco, "Hideous Kinky". Freud started working for Vivienne Westwood during the 1980s before setting up her own design company. She also spent a year as guest designer for Stirling Cooper and undertook consultancy work for the British fashion company Jaeger during
Ernst L. Freud of Knightsbridge" as funeral directors. Ernst Freud also later designed the marble plinth on which Sigmund Freud's urn was placed. Freud married Lucie Brasch, daughter of Joseph Brasch, a wealthy Berlin corn merchant. Lucie had studied classical philology in Berlin and Munich, as well as art history with Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. To honor his wife, Ernst Freud added the middle initial L, for Lucie, to his name. Ernst and Lucie had three sons: Stephen Gabriel Freud (1921–2015), the politician and broadcaster Clement Freud (1924–2009) and the painter Lucian Freud (1922–2011), who was named after his mother. Clement Freud wrote