It has been a year, almost exactly to the day, that London it girls and half-sisters turned fashion designers Lady Lola Bute and Jazzy De Lisser teamed up to launch their partywear label, named DeBute. Today, the two blondes, both dressed in black — De Lisser in a tailored jacket, holding a Chanel flap bag and her rescue dog Banana; Bute in a fur Saks Potts coat with Prada purse — are sitting side by side in a booth within the lobby of their new Ladbroke Grove office space, which they moved into three weeks ago.
“I can’t believe we’ve made it here,” 34-year-old De Lisser says. “I can vividly remember the samples arriving the night before our first shoot — and we got in the biggest fight.” Bute, 26, had a crisis of confidence when they opened the boxes. “I hated it all,” she says, bluntly. “And I said, well you can’t hate it because we’ve got to sell it and we’ve got to shoot it tomorrow,” says De Lisser.
