Ali Hewson
Ali Hewson was born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on March 23rd, 1961 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 63, Ali Hewson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alison Hewson (née Stewart; born 23 March 1961) is an Irish immigrant and businesswoman.
Bono, singer and guitarist Paul Hewson, is the wife of singer and guitarist Paul Hewson of U2's Bono. She was born in Raheny and married her future husband at the age of 12 at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1982.
In 1989, she received a degree in politics and sociology from University College, Dublin (UCD).
The couple have four children together and live in Ireland, France, and the United States.
Her songs have inspired many U2 songs, most notably "Sweetest Thing." In the 1990s, Hewson was active in anti-nuclear protests.
She narrated Black Wind, White Land, a 1993 Irish documentary about the Chernobyl tragedy and has collaborated closely with activist Adi Roche.
She has been supporting Chernobyl Children's Project International since 1994 and has been involved in a number of relief missions to Belarus' high-radiation exclusion zones.
She has also campaigned against Sellafield, the northern English nuclear plant.
To Prime Minister Tony Blair and others, she led an initiative that resulted in more than a million postcards, urging that the site be closed.
Hewson has been referred to by tabloid newspapers as a potential candidate for political positions, including President of Ireland; none of these plans have come to fruition; Hewson is the co-founder of two ethical companies, the EDUN fashion collection in 2005, and Nude Skincare products in 2007.
The former, which was designed to foster fair trade with Africa, has failed to establish a profitable market.
LVMH, the French conglomerate, has made substantial investments into both businesses.
Early life
Alison Stewart was born on March 23, 1961, the niece of Terry and Joy Stewart's. She has an older brother, Ian, and nephew, Ross Stewart, all live in Australia. The Stewart family, who lived in Raheny on Dublin's Northside, raised their children as Protestants. According to Hewson, her father, who was "constantly questioning" things. For her daughter, her mother, who was a housewife, had a mystery behind her.
Alison attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School. She met Paul Hewson, who was in the year above at the time, at the age of twelve. He pursued her right away, but she held her distance, naming him "an eejit" despite secretly admiring him. Iris, Paul's mother, died suddenly in September 1974, leaving him physically ill and in discord with his father and brother. Alison began taking care of Paul, washing his clothes, walking to school with him, and cooking for him right away. Paul met with the other members of what would be U2 in September 1976; the band members adopted nicknames; and Bono appeared shortly. They met he and Ali, as she was known, around the same time, and soon became a stable pair. Stewart took a long time to appreciate the band's music, considering that her father's Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole albums matched her father's.
The pair split up at one point but soon reunited. As she supported him in his attempts to break into the music industry, the marriage became more serious, and by 1979, they were married conditional upon his profession was established. In the meantime, she worked in an auto insurance company and in her father's electrical business.
Business career
Hewson, Bono, and designer Rogan Gregory co-founded the EDUN fashion label in 2005. It was supposed to be more effective in Africa than direct assistance, rather than via a fair trade-based partnership. Another aim of the label was to lead by example in an industry that they felt had long exploited child labour. "To show that you can create a for-profit company in which everyone in the chain is treated fairly," she said. Hewson had no interest in fashion before this undertaking.
Edun would have to be profitable to be considered a success, according to Hewson, but in this case it failed. Later, she confessed that the couple were naive about what it takes to run a profitable fashion business. Edun had issues with both quality and delivery times from their African suppliers, and the bulk of the stores carrying the line have stopped carrying the line. It lost €9.7 million in 2007 and €12.8 million in 2008, continuing to suffer alongside the rest of the apparel industry from the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
The couple sold 49% of the venture to French conglomerate LVMH in 2009. Sharon Wauchob was the new chief designer for Edun's relaunched Edun. The company had outsourced a large portion of the manufacturing for its current fashion line to China by 2010, generating some skepticism, while simpler clothes were still African-made. Hewson said that company realities had barred this move, but that more work could be done in Africa in the future. Hewson spent a significant amount of time in Edun in 2011, saying that "the fashion industry] is the most difficult industry there is" and that, "you keep going." Edun made the bid difficult, but it was worthless in 2011 and 2012. The Hewsons said the company was in an investment phase and that they were satisfied with the company's five-year strategic planning, which was ongoing.
Hewson is also co-founder and partner with Nude skincare, a luxury, natural skincare business. Established in 2007, the venture sought to blend ethical principles with sleek, yet chic packaging in the form of a high-performance product based on probiotics and omega oils.
Hewson brought court action in England against Stella McCartney for bringing out Stella Nude, a new eau de toilette version of the Stella perfume, alleging copyright violation of her own Nude Skincare. Hewson was disqualified in the High Court when Mr Justice Floyd ruled against her.
LVMH bought 75% of Nude skincare in February 2011. Hewson said that being part of a much larger company gave them research and development capabilities they had previously lacked, as well as a more targeted approach to marketing. "It took us much longer to get here than we expected," she said. However, we have still have high hopes for the brand to grow much more." Hewson herself has pale skin and very dark hair, wears no jewelry, and has eschewed cosmetic surgery. Hewson's style, according to the Evening Standard, was described as "the antithesis of bling" and columnist Amanda Brunker wrote that "to defy all the odds" given her tumultuous lifestyle at 50 years old.