A Scottish fashion company famed for its celebrity clientele has been placed into voluntary liquidation.
Liquidators said the company which had customers including Jennifer Lopez, Madonna and Michelle Pfeiffer was solvent and “all creditors will be paid in full”.
Scottish Borders-based Queene and Belle Limited agreed a resolution at a meeting chaired by Angela Bell “that the company be wound up voluntarily” and that a liquidator is appointed.
Richard Gardiner, of Thomson Cooper, was appointed liquidator “for the purpose of such winding up”.
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Queene and Belle Limited, described by Companies House as operating a “creative design” business.
Its most recent accounts showed three people including the director employed by the company in 2025.
Angela Bell, the sole director, founded the firm in 2001 and said in an interview in The Herald that the “designs have been bought by Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Michelle Pfeiffer, Trudie Styler and Clemence Poesy, among others, which is great”, adding: “We have customers around the world, including many in Japan.”
She said at the time: “We have a very artistic approach to all the pieces, and so much thought is put into every detail. It all comes from my perspective – that’s what my customers buy into.”
The winding up is described as a “members’ voluntary liquidation”, which is a process used when a company can pay its debts in full but its members, or shareholders, opt to close the business.
Guidance shows that “if you’re a director of the company, you may choose members’ voluntary liquidation”.
It adds: “This applies when your company is ‘solvent’, or can pay its debts in full, but you want to retire or step down from the business.”
More widely, Scotland’s most recent figures showed there was a slight dip in the number of monthly liquidations compared to the same time last year, with the February total of 98 sitting at 5% lower than last year.