The London College of Style

Claire Angel

Claire is a highly experienced lecturer in fashion design, garment realisation, pattern cutting, print and knit for both womenswear and menswear. Claire joins LCS as a conscientious and dedicated team member. She is a superb teacher who is both supportive, and motivating towards her students.

Claire graduated with a B.A 1st class honours degree in fashion design from the infamous Central St Martins College, London. During her career, she has worked as fashion designer for famous design label English Eccentrics and as a freelance designer for leading brand names including Liberty of London, 1647 French and Teague and Bruce Oldfield. Her knowledge of the industry coupled with her understanding and execution of design and print techniques is outstanding.

Claire has extensive lecturing experience working for some of the most highly sought after fashion and design colleges in the world including: Central St Martins, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Royal College of Art, University of Westminster and Ravensbourne College of Art where she lectures in design, fashion, textiles, hair and make-up.

Claire is also currently working on accessories and jewellery designs under her own label.

www.claireangel.com

Grace Banks

Grace Banks is a freelance journalist, writer and fashion editor who has been writing about fashion and style for the last five years, and continues to work as a highly sought after freelance journalist.

After learning the ropes at two of the magazine industry's biggest titles, Grace got her first full-time job as the online features assistant New Woman magazine where she further developed her writing skills and keen eye for fashion. She then went on to work at In Style magazine where her love for magazine journalism was cemented.

Since then she has worked at glossy magazines such as Grazia and Look. Now working as a freelance writer and fashion editor, Grace continues to develop her industry contacts and is the fashion editor on Very.co.uk's interactive fashion magazine VStyle.

Grace also works closely with the team behind Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief charity in their fundraising, and the organization of the fashion for relief catwalk shows.

Dan Blake

Dan is a first rate editorial and freelance stylist. He is a highly infectious, relaxing and charismatic speaker who brings a wealth of insider knowledge to the LCS team. With many years of experience as a men's editorial and freelance stylist Dan also styles for women's and still life projects.

Having studied fashion design at Central St Martins in 2006, Dan found his passion lay in styling and has worked in the industry ever since. He has contributed editorial styling to such publications as; L'officiel Homme, Volt Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter Magazine, So Chic Magazine and Soma Magazine.

Dan is now an in-house Fashion Editor at 7th Man Magazine; a high-end luxury men's fashion magazine that takes a unique and sophisticated art-directional approach.

Dan is an exemplary figure to all LCS style students not only as an inspirational creative force but as a great example of how possible it is to achieve your aspirations.

With a focus on high-end editorial styling, Dan knows that the demands of working in industry can pose varying challenges. It is this broad styling experience that Dan brings with him to LCS. He knows that styling for celebrities, bands, designer lookbooks, shows, advertising campaigns, e-com and other styling jobs can often vary greatly. As well as a large area of expertise Dan also offers students of LCS firsthand experience of working in the industry from an insider's perspective.

Martin Carter

Martin is a brilliant make-up artist and a great communicator. His friendly, caring attitude has earned him respect amongst the movers and shakers in the fashion and beauty industries and he is well liked by everyone who knows him.

Martin Graduated from the London College of Fashion in 1995 doing the HND Fashion Styling course. After a stint working as a National Artist for Versace, he became freelance and has built an impressive client base over the 15 years he has been working as a Hair & Make-Up Artist.

He has worked with many leading brands, and established himself focusing on his exquisite attention to detail. Based in London, Martin travels worldwide for photo shoots and advertising campaigns.

His editorial work has appeared in Harpers Bazaar, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style magazine and many others. He also works on a variety of international Advertising Campaigns for Getty Images, Dewnyters, Versace, Saville Row, Jasper Conran, Agent Provocateur, Pretty Polly, Sony, Vodaphone and Marks & Spencer.

Martin also works regularly on ITV's award winning TV show 'This Morning' as make-up artist for star guests and presenters.

During the last few years Martin has been a Make-up Designer for Dewynters who look after The Royal Opera House campaigns and the West End shows in London including the acclaimed 'Little Voice', 'Waiting for Godot', and more recently period plays like' Ghosts' and 'When we are married'.

His celebrity clients are wide ranging and include Rupert Everett, Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian Mckellen, Tony Curtis, Mariah Carey, Pussy Cat Dolls, Maureen Lipman, Robert Webb, Jimmy Carr, Jane Danson, Susie Blake, Lauren Lavern, Kate Brand, Basement Jaxx, Bens Brother, Peter Andre, Sophie Dahl and Diana Vickers.

www.martincarter.net

Zoe Cosby

Zoe Cosby lights up the room with her charismatic and enchanting personality. She started her career as a dancer, with a scholarship to the Laban Centre the largest contemporary dance centre in Europe, designed by award winning architects Herzog and De Meuron. After a knee injury lead to a change in career, she began assisting top make-up artists and stylists in London working as a freelance fashion assistant for magazines including Tatler and Eve magazine.

Zoe was then head hunted by a PR agency to represent the consumer side of their business agency. Her client portfolio included Covent Garden Market, Longchamp and Safilo (manufacturers for big brand eyewear). After several years working in consumer PR, Zoe took the bold step to join her 230 year old family business Kent Brushes where she contributed to the PR and was involved in expanding the salon retail business and e-commerce.

In 2008 she left London for a year travelling solo around the world. Whilst freelancing for Red Bull and Macmillan on her return, she was recommended to Claire Goldsmith, great granddaughter of iconic eyewear brand Oliver Goldsmith. She joined the team in March 2010 with the aim to increase retail revenue and charge forward with the Claire Goldsmith eyewear brand. Zoe has a huge sentiment and passion for brand heritage, authenticity and the importance of British manufacturing which she will share with the students at LCS.

www.olivergoldsmith.com

Wendy Elsmore - Celebrity Fashion Stylist

Wendy was the Fashion Expert for ITV's This Morning for six years. She is regarded as one of the most popular and engaging spokesperson's for style and fashion today. Charming by nature, her enthusiasm for people and life is infectious. Viewers and audiences are drawn to Wendy's natural persona and her capacity to engage with the public as a true people's person. She instinctively understands how to make people look and feel fantastic and many a public face has been styled by Wendy including Catherine Zeta Jones and Kevin Spacey.

Other television presenting credits include GMTV, Trisha, Hotel Inspector, Discovery Channel, and E Channel. Wendy has worked with a whole host of the UK's most recognised broadcasters. She also interviews fashion and style related designers and celebrities worldwide and reports from style events including London Fashion Week. Wendy regularly interviews designers including Sir Paul Smith, Matthew Williamson, Betty Jackson, Ben de Lisi, Vivienne Westwood, Zandra Rhodes and Amanda Wakeley amongst others.

Wendy has worked for publications including Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Grazia, Red, Prima, Sunday Magazine, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Daily Mirror and La Redoute. She has also headed costume for L'Oreal where she has created fashion presence at glittering events including Colour Trophy and 4 times British Hairdressers of the Year Trevor Sorbie MBE.

She is inspired by new and exciting avenues of creativity and is dedicated to promoting raw British talent. She works closely with graduates from Central St. Martins, The Royal College of Art and Chelsea College of Art on a variety of costume/styling/textile projects.

Selena Francis-Bryden

Selena is passionate about clothing but especially the recycling of clothes, accessories and home ware. She joins the LCS team as an inspiring and exciting teacher who will run interactive customising workshops with our students.

From the age of six Selena worked alongside her father selling children's clothes in Portobello Market. She took over the stall at 18, selling vintage clothing. She then moved quite quickly into customising vintage and second hand items. In 2001 she received funding from the Prince's Trust and started her label 'Franny B'. As well as selling at Portobello she sold customised clothing in Top Shop's Bazaar section in London's Oxford Circus flagship store.

In 2003 Selena was propelled into the limelight when a one-off coat of hers was chosen for Sarah Jessica Parker to wear to front the commercial for the final series of Sex and the City.

She received national and international press coverage and was inundated with work. Since then, she has worked with New Look, touring their flagship stores and customising jeans to promote their denim range and she has produced a collection for Miss Selfridge online. Her clothing has been sold in boutiques worldwide.

Selena's clients have included designer supremos Dolce and Gabanna, British great Sir Paul Smith, and TV stars and celebrities June Sarpong, Javine and Meg Mathews. As well as the big screen for Sex and the City, Selena has customised clothing for TV shows Footballers Wives, Family Affairs, T4, and Hollyoaks. Selena's influential role also sees her mentoring young designers who are aiming to create a name for themselves. Selena recently ran recycling workshops at the celebrated 'Vintage Festival' at Goodwood and conducted talks and demonstrations at 'Britain's Next Top Model' Live. She is also creating workshops for Watford Council in conjunction with the New Hope Trust. She works on numerous other campaigns involving fashion styling, fashion story planning and furniture recycling.

Selena has just launched her first book 'DIY Fashion, Customize and Personalize' published by Lawrence King which is a lifestyle and teaching guide that is simple to follow with dynamic results. The aim is to teach, not only how to personalize your own outfits, but how to construct your own ideas, get inspiration and save money. With hints and tips and fashion facts, it is all about self- styling and being unique which has to be the perfect addition to all budding stylists' book collections!

selenafrancisbryden.wordpress.com

Nuala Mulligan & Tom Davy

Creative partners, Nuala and Tom first discovered each others talents for capturing the artistic potential of scenographic photography after working together.

Nuala, is a multi national exhibiting and published photographer with over ten years experience in the Fine Art and Photography, having worked with clients across Europe and the States.

Tom has notched up varied shoot experience in Advertising, Fashion and Private commissions which has seen him work with Warner Bross, The BBC and RDF productions amongst others. He is a perfectionist with a meticulous eye for detail.

Nuala and Tom's partnership radiates from an exploration of the dramatic and ambient visions of image, based in the world of visual culture and statement.

Saskia Osmond-Evans

Saskia has been in the PR industry for fifteen years working for leading brands in media and fashion. They include National Magazine Company, where she looked after magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Company and Harper's Bazaar. Marks and Spencer where she managed the menswear and childrenswear fashion PR. In addition she has also worked in Australia for a consumer PR agency working on key lifestyle accounts.

In her current role Saskia is Senior PR Manager at Arcadia and primarily looks after the PR for leading high street brands Dorothy Perkins & Evans, as well as online strategy for the group. Saskia recently worked on the high profile campaign 'Beth Ditto at Evans', which was a ground breaking collaboration for the brand and achieved over £1.5 million worth of PR coverage.

Saskia works at the heart of the fashion industry as a key player in the biggest retail group in the UK. She has the brilliant ability to chat in a very enticing and enigmatic way that inspires and motivates those wanting to build a career in the fashion industry to 'want to focus on every detail' in the learning process required to be a fantastic fashion stylist.

Gary Page - Costumer / Fashion Designer

Gary is an extraordinary creative talent in the British Fashion industry. With a career that reads like a Who's Who from the world of design and film, respect for Gary is that of a master of his artistry who remains delightfully humble in the light of his incredible achievements.

His training in design led to his first notable role in the industry as assistant designer for English Eccentrics and then senior designer for Wayne Hemingway's iconic Red or Dead label. He was also the designer for Eden Project.

To date his film credits include, fabric buyer for Batman, cutter for Kingdom of Heaven directed by Ridley Scott, cutter for Sherlock Holmes and principal cutter for Harry Potter 4,5,6,7 & 8 including characters played by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Jason Isaacs, Robbie Coltrane, Imelda Staunton, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Rhys Iffans and others.

Gary is in demand in all areas of the industry and his roles are multifaceted to include designer for the Royal Welsh National Opera, cutter for Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue world tours, Prince, Take That, Trevor Sorbie and L'Oreal.

Gary is also senior lecturer at both Chelsea College of Art and Design and The Royal College of Art London. He is a brilliant and inspiring teacher who believes that 'every project should be seen as a challenge, nothing's easy' in order to dig deep and consistently drive creativity. He teaches by the art of suggestion and helps to create vision as his students 'learn by choice'.

Mira Parmar

Mira is an amazing make-up artist which is instantly apparent when you see her with her brushes! She was transfixed by art and drawing from a young age and has used this skill and transformed it into a passion for make-up. At The London College of Style we are delighted to include Mira on our expert team with her gorgeous smile and personality to go with it.

Mira is a self taught in make–up and has always had an instinctive eye for detail and precision. She started working in the TV industry making programmes for companies including ITV, Endemol and the BBC but realised that her true vocation lay elsewhere. She started assisting some of the UK’s most talented make-up artists on varying projects. Mira has learned how this side of the industry operated from watching make -up artists at work on the TV shows she had worked on. From that moment, her new career had begun and her personal client base was a natural progression.

Today Mira is in high demand as a celebrity make-up artist and can regularly be seen on the celebrity and fashion circuit making people look beautiful. She works on all types of commercial, editorial, fashion, beauty and music projects.

Her celebity client list include: Kasabian, White Lies, Yasmin, Madness, Cliff Richard, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Sony, Evans, Karen Millen, Warehouse, Kelly Hoppen, ITV’s This Morning, Sainsbury's, Company Magazine, Morphy Richards.

www.miraparmarmakeup.com

Jason Smith & Tony Cullen - Celebrity Hairdressers

Jason and Tony are masters of hair. They have created a stunning boudoir style salon, Smith and Cullen that sees clients travelling from miles around for the award winning cutting, colour and extension skills of this much loved duo.

Jason has been at the cutting edge of British hairdressing since the tender age of 16 when he joined four times Hairdresser of the Year, Trevor Sorbie MBE in his London Covent Garden salon. This was Jason's entree to the world of hair fusing with fashion through live shows, photographic shoots, session styling and education trained by one of the greatest hairdressers in the world.

Tony started his career in Northern Ireland where he met Jason and moved to England to join global hair and fashion brand Balmain where Jason was Art Director. Tony appears regularly on stage at trade consumer events including The Clothes Show Live and Salon International where his bubbly personality and wicked sense of humour captivates audiences.

As well as running their own salon, Jason and Tony's international work continues to go from strength to strength with them appearing on stage across Europe, Scandinavia and the USA. They also represented Great Britain in the World Hairdressing Championships in Chicago.

Jason has an extensive celebrity client list including Zandra Rhodes, Betsy Johnson, Denise Van Outen, Louise Redknapp, Melinda Messenger, cast members from Eastenders and Take That.

www.smithandcullenhairdressing.com