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…
ELLISS, the label founded by London-based Central Saint Martins graduate Elliss Solomon, is a ready-to-wear brand that creates clothing with a distinctive voice, joining luxury fashion and activism with the aim of making thought-provoking pieces. Born from a desire to create garments using comfortable, natural fabrics in contemporary silhouettes, Unconscious Clothing, Solomon’s A/W16 collection, is a…
Stylish and sociable, Jay Jopling, the English art dealer, has covertly shaped the British art scene for nearly three decades. He is largely credited for making artists, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Antony Gormley, household names. Born in 1963, Jopling was brought up in Yorkshire and educated at Eton and Edinburgh…
Edda Gimnes is a recent graduate from the London College of Fashion. The Norwegian born designer lives and works in London, where she creates eclectic designs combining diverse elements, from pink knitting with gold and light blue embroidery to bold prints with outlandish embellishments. During the last Berlin Fashion Week, Gimnes won the Designer for Tomorrow Award,…
Fergus Henderson, the English chef and founder of the hugely successful St. John restaurants in London, interestingly had no formal training in cooking, and has never worked under another chef. Following in the footsteps of his parents, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association school in London. In 1992 Henderson and his wife,…
Richard Rogers Born in Florence in 1933 to an English father and an Italian mother, Richard Rogers came to England as a young child when war was threatened. As a boy, Rogers did not excel academically but always had a keen interest in art. It was only after his time in national service, when he…
Tamara Rojo is the Lead Principal and Artistic Director of the English National Ballet. She is responsible for the frontier location move of the Ballet which is planned to open in 2018 in London City Island in E14, uniting the English National Ballet and its school at the same time as well renewing the repertoire…