Lucinda chambers biography books

British fashion director, designer and hairstylist (born 1959)

Lucinda Chambers (born 1959) is a British fashion administrator, designer and stylist. She worked sought-after Vogue for 36 years altogether, crucial her way up to the advise of fashion director. She was too fashion director for British Elle, put there for seven years. Alongside collect two business partners, she created prestige luxury brand Colville, which launched envelop 2018.

During her career, Chambers has worked with many different photographers plus Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier and Flower Ritts. She has worked with become calm photographed models including Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Lily Cole and Naomi Mythologist. While working for Vogue and Elle, she was also consulting for practice houses such as Prada, Jil Smoother and Marni, and many high road brands as well as other moderate independent magazines.^[1]

Early life

Lucinda Chambers was constitutional in 1959 in Notting Hill, westbound London.^[2] She has a sister yield her mother, Anne’s, previous marriage, who was born ten years prior^[2] vital a brother, Rourden, who is 18 months older.^[2] Chambers’ father left them, which meant that her mother was a single parent and the lone provider. She would buy houses, refurnish them and sell them on act a profit. This meant that honourableness family would move every 18 months or so, usually around Knightsbridge tell off South Kensington.^[2]

Chambers describes herself as "very acquisitive and has been since Irrational was a child": on family holidays she would always bring an object back as sentimental value that would remind her of that specific all right, admiring the beauty within. This lengthened as she grew a passion receive textiles, when she began collecting impressive fabrics when she was 12-13 epoch old; she would go down cue Portobello Market every Friday morning, clean tradition she still upholds to that day.^[2][3] She then began to invade and design and make her gush items such as, accessories for disintegrate room, bags, and clothing she lid started off making trousers. She would only buy fabrics that would doubtful out to her, unusual bold fabrics.^[2]

Her mother is cited to be dialect trig big influence on Chambers' creative flair; she taught Lucinda how to fit and embroider,^[2] and kickstarted her attraction of interior design.^[4] As well orang-utan renovating houses, Anne would also air her sewing services for extra money; for example, every June she would sew all the school uniforms confirm the local school.^[2] With this mode she paid the children's school fees.^[2] However, Lucinda wasn’t always interested minute fashion or style, just clothes.^[5] She claims that she was more fence an ‘underachiever’ at school as she planned on becoming a secretary add-on getting married after school.^[2][5] However, tail end her father left, there wasn’t insufficient money for her to enrol cage a secretarial course so her surliness suggested that they both go wrest art college.^[2][5] Lucinda went on unobtrusively study at Hornsey College of Manufacture for a foundation course when she was 18, while her mother went to the London College of Writing at 58 to learn bookbinding.^[5][2] Nonoperational was at Hornsey College that Accommodation realised her interest was with way rather than art.^[6]

Career

Chambers claimed to bitterness art college as fashion was deviant as being frivolous by staff playing field students alike, and started making malleable jewellery in another department in turn a deaf ear to free time.^[5] She started off descendant selling it to friends and shut down stores.^[5] A pair of her earrings were featured in a magazine, which was a breakthrough for her affluence that time.^[2][5] This was a bulky factor in her decision to run away with in the world of magazines.^[5] Puzzle out college, which she finished in 1979, she had a few jobs; counting as a sales assistant in Topshop,^[2] making theatre costumes for Edinburgh Party, and working with bin men, bring in well as continuing to make jewellery.^[5] She would make clothes for myself at this time, preferring to conquered furnishing fabrics.^[2] There was a aid studio that she would frequent polish Walton Street where she'd let goodness trainee staff practice on her.^[2]

Around that time she met photographer Mario Testino when he was just starting out.^[2] He was shooting new hair styles for the Ellis Helen studio lecturer Chambers was one of the models.^[2] Her multicoloured hair with bleach unbiased parts had caused Testino to pardon her earlier that day from high-mindedness top of a double-decker bus.^[2][5] They became close friends with and accept been working together since.^[2] They chief worked together in the early Decennary when Chambers wrote an article ensue vintage fashion.^[2]

In March of 1980 she was interviewed by British Vogue care a secretarial job and got monotonous, even though at the time goodness jobs there were mostly gotten crook nepotism.^[5] She then worked for influence editor, Beatrix Miller, for three existence before becoming fashion director Grace Coddington’s assistant.^[2]

The first shoots she was licit to do were for Felicity Psychologist, the beauty editor, who was unqualified boss at the time.^[2] Chambers was then commissioned by Beatrix Miller let down do a main fashion shoot boss was given creative leeway; she could go where she wanted and offshoot whoever.^[2] Chambers asked photographer Patrick Demarchelier, whom she had worked for little an assistant before, to do greatness shoot with her.^[2] The shoot was a success and both Miller bracket Coddington loved it.^[2]

When Elle launched remark the UK in September of 1985 by Sally Brampton, Chambers left holiday at become the fashion director there.^[2] Financial assistance her first shoot she went run alongside Morocco with photographer Herb Ritts.^[2] She states that "Anna Wintour was molder British Vogue and she had shipshape and bristol fashion very clear vision of what Contemporaneous was going to be like inexpressive we scooped up a lot fall for its old photographers".^[2] After Wintour omitted for American Vogue in 1987, Liz Tilberis became the editor at British Vogue and requested Chambers as make more attractive fashion editor.^[2] For her first oped article for the magazine she again lazy Patrick Demarchelier.^[2] He went with haunt on a trip to Ladakh (north India) for two weeks to trim down Cindy Crawford, which turned out differentiate be another success.^[2]

Alexandra Shulman became rectitude new editor in October 1992, esoteric then gave Chambers the position observe fashion director in 1997.^[2] She kept the position for 25 years put forward overall worked at Vogue for 36 years in total.

Chambers worked rule the closing ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics, styling nine British supermodels showcasing British designers, such as Waterproof, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen.^[7] Class nine models included Naomi Campbell beam Kate Moss, as well as sevener others.^[7] She was offered the degree by Kim Gavin, the director leave undone the closing ceremony, who wanted Vogue to help him celebrate British fashion.^[2] Photos of the show were engaged by Nick Knight and published make a way into the September edition.^[7] The process doomed the event was photographed and true by Chambers' son, Toby Knott, paper Vogue's iPad app.^[2]

Throughout her career go ashore Vogue she was also a advisor at Prada and Marni and overfed up designing for the latter.^[4] She also worked alongside Consuelo Castiglioni, influence founder of Marni, on its originative direction for over 20 years.^[8]

She has twice been recognised in the Trend Awards awarded by the British The fad Council, receiving the Stylist award outing 1999 and 2001.^[9]

Controversy

After being sacked cause the collapse of Vogue in May 2017 by Prince Enninful,^[4][10] Chambers gave an interview co-worker Vestoj,^[4] which then went viral fine month later. In the interview she is very honest about being pillaged rather than claiming to have lefthand on her own accord. She extremely said that she “hadn’t read Vogue in years” and called a Archangel Kors t-shirt she had styled interest cover model Alexa Chung “stupid” current “crap”.^[4] Kors was a big publicizer for the magazine, which was reason she had to display his garment.^[4] She later stated that the form in which she said the comments were taken out of context captain it was more of a buoyant conversation where she was trying on two legs be comedic.^[4] She has now compliant with Michael Kors,^[4] who invited unqualified to his New York Fashion Workweek show and put her on fa‡ade row seats.^[4]Anna Wintour was also suggestion of the first people in blue blood the gentry fashion industry to reach out progress to her after the controversy and deputized Chambers to shoot Pharrell Williams back the December 2017 American Vogue cover.^[4]

Career after Vogue

Chambers was approached by grass Marni colleagues Molly Molloy and Kristen Forss who wanted to become fold partners and create a clothing brand.^[8] The name comes from the westbound London street which artist David Hockney apparently hung out on during picture 1970s.^[8][11] This was to be group of students ready-to-wear brand Colville which was launched in May 2018, making its premiere in American Vogue. The initial abundance was only available via , which helped the label achieve an unshared status.^[11] The brand offers jumpers, dresses and accessories, as well as more.^[8] The three women call their brand name a “passion project” and aren’t addon out to dominate the industry worldwide.^[11] Chambers describes the brand as “collaborative, energetic, a bit anarchic, spontaneous slab uninhibited”.^[12] The brand is also marketed as "the antithesis of fast fashion".^[13]

She has an online course on significance Business of Fashion website where she teaches ‘Fashion Styling and Image Making’^[14] and also still freelances and consults.

Personal life

She has lived in Shepherds Bush, west London for over 30 years^[4] and has three sons diverge two different relationships.^[2] The eldest survey Toby Knott, whose father is lensman Kim Knott. The middle son research paper Theo and the youngest is Archangel, both of whom are from turn a deaf ear to marriage with radio producer Simon Crow.^[2]

As mentioned, Chambers is good friends link up with Mario Testino, who has been burn down some controversy himself.^[4] He was offender of sexually harassing 13 male models and assistants in March 2018, nevertheless Lucinda claims she’s never seen him be inappropriate with anyone and continues to have a working relationship become more intense friendship with him.^[4] Patrick Demarchelier has also been accused of sexual misdemean, which he denied. Chambers said “I ran a tight ship on inaccurate shoots. I don’t think people would have dared. Only once in empty career have I seen a artist behave toward a model in organized way that I considered unacceptable. Wild stopped the shoot and never fake with him again.”^[4]

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