Tabitha Designs Ltd, the fashion label beloved by the Princess of Wales, has entered voluntary liquidation with debts of £700,000, including a £50,000 tax bill owed to HMRC. The company, founded in 2013 by designer Tabitha Webb, 50, has dressed numerous celebrities such as Holly Willoughby, Claudia Winkleman, Davina McCall, and Emilia Fox.
A spokesman for the liquidators confirmed to the Daily Mail that the director made the 'difficult decision' to liquidate following 'a number of business challenges since the pandemic and declining sales'. It is 'unlikely that liabilities to creditors will be repaid'.
The Princess of Wales, 43, has long been a fan of Webb's brightly coloured silk and cashmere designs. In 2020 alone, she wore a green chevron pansy pussybow blouse (£295) for a royal outing in Birmingham and a blue jumper (£275) during a video call with midwives. She also wore a floral dress by Webb during the 2012 Diamond Jubilee tour of Tuvalu and a space-themed dress at the 2015 London premiere of Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas.
Webb, whose sister is financial journalist Merryn Somerset Webb, previously co-founded the label Project D with singer Dannii Minogue, which was also worn by the princess. In a 2024 interview with HELLO!, Webb spoke about her five-bedroom holiday home in South Africa, where her husband Gavin Ferrar is from, and her friendship with Kate's sister Pippa Middleton, with whom she collaborated in 2015 on a dress and scarf for the British Heart Foundation.
