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The Insiders is a regular column by Kin Woo, presenting integral, but often hidden figures within the fashion industry

  • Sarah Mower

    Insiders | Sarah Mower

    Her recent citation with an MBE for “services to the Fashion Industry” only confirmed to the wider public what the British fashion industry has known for...

  • Susannah Frankel

    Insiders | Susannah Frankel

    Ever since documenting the seminal Fashion-able? shoot by Nick Knight and her close friend, the late Alexander ‘Lee’ McQueen for Dazed’s 1998 issue; Susannah...

  • Agnès Boulard

    Insiders | Agnès Boulard

    If there were rules for being the perfect La Parisienne, what would they be? Who better to ask than the French fashion journalist, Agnès Boulard, who in her...

  • Jae Choi

    Insiders | Jae Choi, The Collective Shift

    The times, as Bob Dylan sang it, are a-changin’. And while the fashion industry as a whole can be slow to embrace change, not so Jae Choi, founder of visionary...

  • Louise Wilson

    Insiders | Louise Wilson

    Professor Louise Wilson OBE, Course Director of the MA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins is regaling me with tales from the raucous farewell party CSM...

  • Jenne Lombardo

    Insiders | Jenne Lombardo, M.A.C. & Milk

    Two years ago, a seismic shift occurred at New York Fashion Week. A cavernous warren of studios in the Meatpacking District rose up to challenge the hegemony...

  • Matthew Moneypenny

    Insiders | Matthew Moneypenny, Trunk Archive

    With his handsome good looks having already graced a number of editorials and a family name that allegedly inspired Ian Fleming to create the character of...

  • Holly Garber

    Insiders | Holly Garber, Golightly PR

    “We’re not just about swimwear and beachwear you know,” sighs PR wunderkind, Holly Garber when recounting some of the common misconceptions about Australian...