Everything you need to know on the mastermind behind Wagamama, Busaba Eathai, Hakkasan, Park Chinois and other global food establishments that have set business and design trends in the restaurant industry. Alan Yau is perhaps one of the icons of the international restaurant industry. As the leading force behind the now-ubiquitous, 90s-born Thai chains Wagamama and…
Meet the visionary restaurateurs turned hoteliers who are behind some of the most iconic and influential spaces in London, including The Beaumont and The Wolseley Chris Corbin and Jeremy King have mastered the art of creating new restaurants that feel as though they have belonged to London for decades. The pair first met while working at popular restaurants…
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)….