Inside the Magic Mind of London’s Most Surreal Set Designer Simon Costin is a set designer, an artist, a jewelry-maker, a curator, a filmmaker and, most recently, a museum director. Born in London, he completed a BA in theatre design at Wimbledon School of the Arts, to which he credits his ability to work through both a creative and technical…
Meet the founder, editorial director of Dazed Media, the digital publishing company behind Dazed (+Digital), Hunger, AnOther and AnOther Man. In 1991, Jefferson Hack launched Dazed & Confused. He was just 19 years-old and in the midst of his uni days at the London College of Printing. He and the photographer Rankin, schoolmates at the time, would meet in the college’s canteen to…
John Skelton has an instinct for fashion buying like no-one in the business. Starting young at 17 at a retailer called Strand in Newcastle stocking brands from Raf to Prada, he later moved to London where he worked at the best known department stores Harrods and Selfridges, before working for multi-level fashion retailer Oki-Ni and…
It’s safe to say that Tim and Kit Kemp are names to know in interior design. They were pioneers in developing and executing the boutique hotel in London and recreated period spaces with elaborate and quirky design. The pair own The Soho Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel, Covent Garden Hotel and Haymarket Hotel, the Knightsbridge Hotel,…
A hotelier with a lifestyle that matches that of a celebrity, André Balazs possesses an impossibly refined palate for design and a repertoire of high profile romances. He plans each project with the end user’s wants and needs in mind, and that’s perhaps why his hotels are star-studded, hook-up destinations, as no offscreen persona better…
Design and strategic thinking: that’s what Thomas Heatherwick has down to a science. He’s known for being the brain behind big-picture urban planning projects and some of the most talked about structures that people use every day, including the New Routemaster design for London’s classic double decker bus (TFL’s first facelift in over 50 years)….
We Made That is an East London based, interdisciplinary architecture and design studio founded by Holly Lewis and Oliver Goodhall just over a decade ago. Both are graduates of the Bartlett School of Architecture; Oliver later studied at the inventive Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art, while Holly is a licensed architect…
J.W.Anderson is a fresh-faced, London-based force in the fashion world, whose vision for the future of the industry is not simply making waves but changing whole currents of the boundaries and traditions under which it operates. Each Sunday to Tuesday evening, hops aboard a Paris-bound train to become Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director of the…