After graduating with a degree in fashion from Ryerson University in Toronto, Erdem Moralioglu made the move from Canada to London where he began his fashion career with an internship at Vivienne Westwood. During his time there he earned a scholarship from the British Council to attend the Royal College of Art to further his…
London native, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in Edinburgh. Soon after, he went on to edit the architecture and design magazine Domus in Milan. In between co-founding British design-focussed magazine Blueprint in 1983 with Peter Murray and working as the architecture critic for The Observer since 2000, he has written numerous books on design and architecture….
Graduating from the BA Menswear programme at Central Saint Martins in 2014, Grace Wales Bonner won the L’Oreal Professionnel Talent Award for her graduate collection. Exploring intersections between diverse cultures, Wales Bonner’s influences span blaxploitation films, Coco Chanel, and traditional African craft techniques, amongst an array of references. She has become quickly recognised for her…
Dan Beaumont is an integral part of the capital’s nightlife scene, having begun his DJ career as one of the residents of the legendary Disco Bloodbath parties. He has since opened seminal venues, Dalston Superstore and the recently closed Dance Tunnel, as well as the massively popular New York style pizza chain Voodoo Ray’s. In…
Over the past decade, Martine Rose has proven herself as somewhat of an anti-establishmentarian figure on the London menswear scene. Shunning the ubiquitous schedule, the designer shows her work sporadically through unusual formats, though this hasn’t always been the case. As well as designing under her eponymous label, Rose is currently a consultant at Balenciaga with…
Helmed by Tremaine Emory and London-born musician Acyde, No Vacancy Inn operates without a fixed location or encompassing definition, reflecting the transient lifestyles of its co-founders. Having launched earlier this year, the duo have already collaborated on a number of interesting projects, including a Bodega pop up with New York-based artist Tom Sachs, a Boiler…
Born and raised in the suburbs of London, artist and designer KESH moved to the city at the age of seventeen, beginning by selling her custom clothing on MySpace. She quickly amassed a following for her monochrome graphic designs, and was commissioned to create looks for London-based grime artists Jammer and Dizzee Rascal, and shortly…
Matthew Freud, the founder and chairman of Freud Communications, born in London in 1963, reflects on the 60s in the city as the start of a new classless generation. He notes, in an interview for London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City, “One establishment has run the UK since 1066. There’s never been a revolution.”…