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…
For over thirty years, and since 1991 under the direction of Michael Morris and James Lingwood, Artangel has produced extraordinary art in unexpected places throughout London, across the UK and around the world. After working at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts as Director of Performing Arts in the 80s, Morris established his own production company,…
Over the past two decades, Nick Jones has developed Soho House into a global empire of members clubs, restaurants, spas and product lines. Jones, who notes he struggled with school due to dyslexia, left education at seventeen to join the Trust House Forte scheme, a training programme in hospitality. He spent eight years with the…