Meet the Pro’s

Alex Longmore: Course Director and Fashion Stylist

Alex Longmore is one of the UK’s top fashion stylists and with over thirteen years of experience in the business she has become a key player within the British fashion industry. Her career in fashion began in London, when in the early years she worked for Company Magazine and Tatler, before moving on to The Daily Mail where she became Style Editor. Her demanding role included writing features, dictating future trends, styling fashion and celebrity shoots. In 2003 Alex decided to embark on a freelance career, this year also saw her become Executive Fashion Director of Shoo Magazine. Her innovative ideas and creativity produced a publication that took accessories into a new fashion arena. With her abundant list of clients Alex’s expertise is always in demand. She styles many shoots, both in the UK and abroad, for editorial, TV and film. She has travelled the globe producing some of the most iconic images of this generation, working along side top ranking photographers and models alike. Alex is also a favourite on our TV screens currently in Colleens Real Women on ITV 2.

Anabel Cutler: Fashion Writer

Anabel Cutler has 15 years experience in style and fashion journalism in television, newspapers and magazines. She was most recently editor of the Lifestyle section at the Daily Mail for four and a half years, managing a team of ten plus commissioning, writing and overseeing fashion and lifestyle features and layouts. She went on to be Fashion Features Director at InStyle Magazine where she attended fashion week and interviewed celebrities and fashion designers. She is now freelance writing for publications which include The Times, Tatler, InStyle and Harpers Bazaar as well as regularly consulting for PR companies.

Camilla Stopford-Sackville: Fashion PR

Camilla has worked for corporate agencies including Freud Communications and PagetBaker for over six years before embarking on setting up her own company Sackville PR in 2008. In her varied career she has worked with a broad range of brands including ABSOLUT VODKA, lastminute.com, Saatchi Gallery, and Max Mara. However, she quickly learnt that her passion lay with working with smaller brands, helping launch them and helping promote them. Her company, Sackville PR is a boutique agency specializing in fashion and Lifestyle. Camilla offers an in-house service for small brands that thrive under her personal approach providing a strategic platform that is both effective and affordable. Since starting she has launched and worked with labels such as Irwin and Jordan, Daisy Jewellery, Tephi, Karen Karam, Goodone, Oxygen Boutique, Thoosa and Madeleine Thompson.

Carmen Bruegmann: Fashion Writer & Editorial Expert

Carmen Bruegmann has extensive experience in print media, having held senior editing roles at Cosmopolitan (Deputy Editor), ELLE (Contributing Features Editor) and SHE (Acting Editor/Deputy Editor). She was also founding editor of SHOO magazine, was a Femail staff writer at the Daily Mail and an independent writer for numerous national publications including the Mail on Sunday, Grazia and Glamour. In addition, she has done consultancy work for fashion and beauty companies and for several entrepreneurs. Prior to that, she was Women’s Editor at the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds.

Over the last two decades, Carmen has worked on countless fashion, celebrity and real-life shoots, working with top stylists and photographers.

She now runs her own company, writing, editing and consulting for magazines, newspapers, PR companies and other businesses.

Carole White: Founder Premier Models

Premier Model Management, established in 1981, is one of the world’s top model agencies, representing some the fashion industry’s most successful faces such as Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Kristy Hume, Katrin Thornmann, Jamie Gunns, Suvi Koponen, Tao and Estella Warren. Premier models continue to grace the covers of magazines around the world including British, Italian, American and French Vogue, Elle, LOVE, Pop, Dazed & Confused, i-D and Wonderland and feature in catwalks and campaigns for international designers such as Prada, Mui Mui, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Gucci, Burberry, Vivienne Westwood and Christopher Kane. Carole White is a voice of authority and experience in the fashion industry. Her views and comments are much sought after by The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail as well as the BBC, Sky News and CNN.

David Brook: Photographer

Photographer David Brook has been working in the industry for over 15 years creating a wide spread client base. Fashion clients range from Temperley London, Daisy Jewellery to Dani Minogue’s new fashion collection Project D. He has photographed numerous shoots and just recently campaigns for Madeleine Thompson’s A/W 2010 Cashmere collection and Suzy Hoodless Interiors. David within this runs his own creative agency F11 Collective. David has also has worked with celebrities Pierce Brosnan, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman.

Dawn MacLeod: Project Manager

Dawn has worked previously for London Design Festival and London’s Proud Gallery as well as a stint at Grazia Magazine. This varied role includes sourcing photographic locations and props as well as organising photographers, models, stylists, make up artists and designers; planning and scheduling photography shoots; budgeting costs.

Fabiola Ferreira de Freitas: Swimwear Designer

Brazilian-born Fabiola Ferreira de Freitas is Tatjana Anika Beachwear chief designer. As a true Brazilian beach lover, it was natural for Fabiola to specialise in swim and cruisewear. Fabiola always felt there was a gap in the market for a sophisticated swimsuit which was not as small as traditional Brazilian bikinis, nor as conservative as European designs and is filling that gap with her ultra-flattering designs for Tatjana Anika.

Fiona Lintott: Fashion Editor

Fiona Lintott is the Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor at Conde Nast Traveller. Following five years under the direction of Isabella Blow at Tatler Magazine styling the fashion features Fiona joined Conde Nast Traveller in 2005 where she now styles and edits all the Fashion, Jewellery and Beauty content of the magazine. Specialising in styling luxury lifestyle shoots, Fiona works with travel and lifestyle photographers to produce fashion stories in destinations around the world that convey both an aspirational lifestyle and the perfect holiday wardrobe.

Jonathan Pang: Fashion TV Presenter and Booker

TV personality Jonathon Pang is a favourite on our TV screens; his roles have included being a judge on Living TV’s Britains Next Top Model and presenting Britain’s Missing Top Model. Apart from a successful TV career, Jonathon has become one of the most prolific Model Bookers of our time, working with models such as Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Jodie Kidd. He has worked at top agencies including IMG and Models 1, where he was head of management and looked after industry icons such as Twiggy and Jerry Hall. He now runs DWM, a successful Hair and Make Up Agency in West London.

Kevin Foord: Photographer

Kevin Foord, a world renowned fashion photographer has shot stories for Harpers Bazaar, I-D, Marie Claire and GQ among many other publications. He has also shot famous advertising campaigns for clients that include Gossard, Levis and John Lewis. His work has taken him all over the world to work in exotic locations such as Mustique, Northern India, Iceland and across the USA. Kevin works between London and NYC and is passionate about photography and the visual image.

Lainey Sheridan-Young: Fashion Sales and PR expert

After many years of working in various sectors of the fashion industry including PR, Photo production, four years at Conde Nast at Vogue international working as the Bookings Editor on the launch of both Russian and Greek Vogue, a freelance stylist working for many International titles and launching the model agency ISIS, Lainey decided, in 2003, to launch her own fashion sales and PR agency ‘Lainey Fashion’.

Lainey Fashion has been held in high regard and a key component in the launch of many new brands in the UK and the Middle East including labels such as sass & bide, Willow, Thakoon, J Brand, Botkier bags, Felix Rey, C.R.A.F.T denim, Saloni, Terexov, Ebony & Ivory and since 2007 for the launch of Laineys own sports/lifestyle line HARI.

Lauren Green:  Vintage Clothing Buyer

Lauren began her career working in fashion PR across a number of fashion and lifestyle accounts. Her move in to vintage buying began as a hobby with a stall at Portobello market. From this she went on to run the vintage section at pretaportobello.com where she currently works as both vintage buyer and project manager. This diverse role includes sourcing all vintage stock for the site, as well as overseeing other projects for the company including styling, events and photo shoots.

Lucy Watson: Picture Editor

Lucy Watson is the Picture Editor of GQ Magazine. One of the most respected Picture Editor’s in the industry she began her career at GQ as assistant to the Style Editor, she then worked her way up the magazine ladder so has a great knowledge of how to break into the magazine world, what gets you noticed with lots of tips on what Editors and Creative Directors look for in new talent.

During Lucy’s time at GQ she has worked with some of the world’s leading photographers such as David Bailey, Ellen Von Unwerth, Sam Taylor-Wood, Terry Richardson, Mark Seliger, Vincent Peters, Simon Emmett, Greg Williams and Peter Lindbergh shooting the likes of Beyonce, Sienna Miller, Cameron Diaz, numerous supermodels, Daniel Craig, Ronaldo, Gordon Ramsay, Brandon Flowers and many more.

Lucy also works on GQ’s sister publication, GQ Style, a biannual fashion bible that is in it’s fifth year now. She has written about photography for GQ Magazine as well as writing food features and restaurant reviews for the magazine which is a personal hobby of hers.

Lucy Williams: Fashion Forecaster

Lucy has spent the last 19 years working as a Womenswear Designer and Fashion Forecaster for many of the British high streets biggest and best names. Lucy runs her own fashion reporting and consultancy service, “Blink London”. Ever month “Blink” issues a set of informative and inspirational reports to clients all around the globe, featuring the best of the British high street as well as highlights from other key European cities.

Lucy’s extensive experience of the British fashion industry and her background as a womenswear designer means that she has an intimate understanding of what tools will really help designers, buyers and visual merchandisers to deliver inspiration, innovation and commercial success on a daily basis. This, coupled with her team’s extensive Buying, Design and Forecasting experience means that “Blink” can offer a detailed, flexible and responsive boutique style consultancy service that reflects their customer’s needs. Whether clients need a small seasonal trend package, a whole seasonal collection designed or a multitude of creative support services in between, Lucy and “Blink”s team of experts know how to deliver.

Olivia Inge: Top Model

Olivia started modelling at 16 when she signed to Models1 while simultaneously preparing for her A-levels at school in her beloved Somerset. Her first job was on the catwalk for Viviene Westwood in London. This was promptly followed by shows in New York, Milan, Paris and Tokyo, walking for, amongst others; Alexander Mcqueen, Tom Ford’s first collection for Yves Saint Laurent, Nichole Fahri, Helmut Lang, Dolce & Gabbana, Topshop, Kenzo, Stephan Jones, Philip Treacy, Armani, Isabel Marant, Issey Miyake, Iceberg, Junya Watannabe, DKNY, Christian Dior and Givenchy.

Olivia has modelled for numerous Vogues’ from around the world including British, Greek, Spanish and Russian. She has led fashion stories in ID, Wallpaper, Surface, Harpers Bazaar USA and UK, Sunday Times Style, Instyle, Grazia, Conde Nast Traveller USA and UK, British and Italian Elle, Tatler and Esquire; she has bagged campaigns for Agent Provocateur, Romeo Gigli, Moet & Chandon, The Body Shop, Virgin Upper Class and Gap.

To drop some photographer names of note, Olivia has posed for the following legends; Arthur Elgort, David Bailey, Emma Tempest, Vincent Peters, Peter Lindbergh and Mario Testino.

Susanne James: Art Director

For the past 18 months Susanne has worked as Art Director for Grazia’s Promotions. Previous to this she worked as art director and designer for a broad section of agencies and brands. Most notable was seven years with Yellow Door, focusing on fashion but not being adverse to the odd crazy food client!

Tabitha Somerset Webb: Designer

Designer Tabitha Somerset Webb launched her label Tabitha in 2003. The Label has expanded since launching to include other leather accessories, such as wallets, makeup bags and stationary. The brand itself has had large amounts of Press coverage over the last few years and has been a firm favourite with many celebrities such as Dannii Minogue, Lisa Snowdon, Kimberly Walsh, Sarah Harding, Denise Van Outen and Fearne Cotton. Tabitha is now going on to design a lifestyle and clothing range called Project D with Dannii Minogue to be launched in Selfridges this year.

Tahirah Conliffe: Video Journalist

Tahirah Conliffe is a fashion journalist and style director. Contributing for international publications Vogue.it, Flaunt magazine and Grazia daily. Tahirah is at the forefront of producing, styling and writing bespoke video profiles for editorial and marketing usage.
With 10 years experience within the fashion industry Tahirah worked for global brand All Saints as head of PR and Marketing. During her time there she directed the company’s seasonal campaigns and brand image. One of the first Pr’s to initiate strong music links with Fashion Brands Tahirah has styled bands like Kings of Leon, Razorlight, The Rakes and The Kooks to name but a few.

Tiffany Mumford: Photographer

Tiiffany Mumford is a photographer with over 15 years of experience:
She is a regular contributor to magazines such as Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Elle, and her unique style has led her to shoot ad campaigns for some of Britain’s most stylish brands.

Her tv credits include Colleens Real Women, and her work has also taken her to New York, the South of France and North Africa: she divides her time between London and Morocco.

Ursula Lake: Fashion Stylist and Swimwear Designer

Ursula started working at Vogue Magazine in the Production Department in 1997, before moving on to work as a Fashion Assistant at Conde Nast Traveller Magazine and ES Magazine. In 2002 she started out on her own as a freelance Fashion Editor. Since then she has contributed to numerous publications such as The Sunday Time Style Magazine, The Daily Mail You Magazine, Tatler, GQ and Instyle. She is currently Fashion Editor of the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella Magazine.

Ursula has travelled the world extensively and worked on creatively selecting every aspect of a shoot as well as choosing the final image. She has also organised the production side of Fashion Photographic shoots in a range of countries from Devon to Tokyo. To add to this she also contributes to the Travel Section of the Telegraph Newspaper.