​Hello, I'm Aurora.
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I started Vetch & Clover with a love of making, history and the magic of styling.
From my little corner of the Devon countryside, I spend my days designing, cutting, sewing and dreaming up clothes inspired by the past, the natural world and the many different ways we can express ourselves through what we wear.
“I make clothes for all the different versions of ourselves - the romantic, the practical, the sophisticated and the part that still believes in a little magic.”
~ Aurora
It started with a Georgian dress
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I didn't grow up sewing. It found me when I was seventeen.
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While studying Art at A Level, I desperately wanted to study sewing, but my college didn't offer it. So I dedicated my art project to historical dress and decided that my first ever garment would be a Georgian gown.
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I taught myself through books, YouTube and plenty of trial and error, fuelled by a teenage fascination with Chatsworth House, Georgiana Cavendish and the extraordinary clothing of her time.
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One dress became undergarments, then more clothes, and a fascination that never really left.
Then came Vetch & Clover
During the early Covid years, I started an Instagram page as somewhere to document the beauty I found around me.
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I photographed the countryside, made outfits and created little stories through imagery. Eventually people began asking whether they could buy the things I was making.
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In 2022, after about a year of being asked, I finally listened.
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Vetch & Clover's first clothing launch consisted of just two pairs of stays. Then came capelets, skirts and gradually an entire wardrobe.
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Somewhere along the way, my hobby became my work.
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I've never really stopped since.
The magic of styling
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I've always been fascinated by how many different sides can exist within one person.
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One part of me loves crisp linen and elegant silhouettes. Another would happily disappear into a fairytale. Another wants a comfortable dress and cardigan. And occasionally I want cargo trousers, lace-up boots and full Lara Croft energy.
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Clothing gives each of them a voice.
To me, the magic of styling is the magic of enhancement.
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I don't want clothes to disguise the person wearing them. I want them to bring something forward that was already there.
From my corner of Devon
I grew up rurally on our family farm, making mud pies, running around with ducks and occasionally being chased by angry cockerels.
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The countryside isn't an aesthetic I've adopted for Vetch & Clover. It's simply home.
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Tangled hedgerows, changing skies, old stone buildings, wildflowers, muddy lanes and the colours of the changing seasons have always surrounded me, so perhaps inevitably they find their way into the things I create.
From me to you
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More than anything, I want you to put on something I've made and feel as though some little part of you has suddenly been seen.
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The romantic part. The sophisticated part. The practical part. The history obsessive. The fairytale chaser.
I want you to feel special in your clothes, and free to make them entirely your own.
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Every time somebody chooses something I've designed, I get the extraordinary privilege of seeing a little piece of my art become part of somebody else's life.
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Thank you for allowing it to become part of yours.
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Aurora x
