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…
David Zwirner has become one of the most iconic dealers and gallerists of the contemporary art scene. As a key representor of both modernist household names like Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, Zwirner also courts new talent emerging from the foundations set by the former. With galleries in New York and London and a potential…
Phoebe Philo is a highly influential British fashion designer whose work at Chloé and Céline has come to redefine womenswear. The Parisian-born, London-educated designer graduated from Central Saint Martin’s in 1996, heading to Paris the next year as Stella McCartney’s first assistant on ready-to-wear at the somewhat outmoded luxury French label Chloé. In 2001, she…