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.”…
West London natives Molly and Alice Goddard have respectively established illustrious reputations for themselves in the fashion industry, following the short years after studying. Back in 2010, the duo collaborated on a mini fashion collection, Lovetits, featuring a number of sequin embellished mesh tops. Since then they’ve worked independently on a number of notable projects,…
British designer Faye Toogood works across interiors, retail design, furniture, architecture and, most recently, fashion. Her unique objects demonstrate a preoccupation with materiality and experimentation. All of her pieces are handmade by small-scale fabricators and traditional artisans. Known to question and reinterpret the application of design, her approach disregards the tendency to have a consistent…
London-based menswear designer Kiko Kostadinov studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins, graduating from his MA in 2016. The Bulgarian-born designer has successfully amassed a cult following for his work, rather impressively, gaining a considerable audience prior to even graduating from his masters. After being commissioned by friend and stylist, Stephen Mann, to rework some…
Natalie Massenet created the now ubiquitous online retail platform Net-a-Porter at her kitchen table in 2000. Credited with bringing high fashion to the web, Massenet remains the executive chair of the Net-A-Porter group, and since 2013 she has been the chairman of the British Fashion Council, actively reinvigorating London Fashion Week. Since she assumed the…
Born in London in 1979, Asif Khan, of Pakistani and Tanzanian heritage, notes he always had a keen interest in art and the sciences; for him, architecture offered an ideal merging of the two fields. He studied at the Bartlett, University College London, then the Architectural Association, winning prizes at both, before intrepidly setting up…
Taking inspiration from the natural world, Isamaya Ffrench paints the faces of fashion’s finest, creating beauty concepts akin to works of art. Theatrical and imaginative, her projects span vibrant editorials, advertising campaigns, music videos and fashion shows. Collaborating with London menswear label, Agi & Sam, for their AW15 collection, Ffrench created playful Lego masks, a…