In 2011 at the age of 15 Rosie Tapner was discovered by Storm Model Management at the Birmingham Clothes Show Live, and within weeks became the face of Balenciaga's 2012 campaign shot by Fashion Royalty Steven Meisel. Rosie hit the ground running with modelling and was suddenly THE New British face of the moment being tipped as the next Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne. Within a year she had become a Vogue cover star, was in the Chloe, Burberry and Selfridges campaigns and walking many of the major...
Mar 14, 2022•57 min
My guest on this episode is my dear friend, top fashion illustrator Nuno da Costa. Born in London to Portuguese parents, he opted to leave studying Modern Languages and Hispanic and Latin American cultural at uni to pursue his first love of art, choosing a career in fashion illustration. HIs love of fashion photography and collaborating with hair and make up artists in the fashion industry, has allowed him to create a singular style of illustration that he has now become famous for. Now residing...
Feb 14, 2022•46 min
Tom Chapman, founder of the Lions Barber collective and Model turned TV presenter, and myself discuss raising awareness about mens mental health outside of metropolitan cities, following a recent research conducted by Ironmongery Direct, in collaboration with charity Mind, which has shown that male construction workers are three times more likely to die from suicide than the average UK man, and half of UK trades people experience mental health issues due to work. Tom Chapman is not only an award...
Feb 07, 2022•53 min
My guest on this episode is Maranda Widlund. Maranda’s Swedish mother who sadly passed away quite young was a hedonistic Model, living her life to the max, packing in an inordinate amount of drink and drugs. Miranda’s father, Gavin Hodge was one of the first “celebrity” hairdressers in the swinging 60’s of London, who also packed into his life an inordinate amount of drink, drugs and sex. Growing up amongst this chaos Miranda managed to forge her own life, and become one of the most lauded hairs...
Jan 24, 2022•57 min
My guest on this episode is Gavanndra Hodge. She has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years, including the Daily Mail, the Independent and ES Magazine. Gavanndra is the sister of my guest on EP 5 Maranda Widlund, launching today too. She was the deputy editor and acting editor of Tatler. In 2018 she left Tatler and became a freelance writer, contributing to publications including the Sunday Times, The Times and the Telegraph. In 2020 during the 1st covid lockdown, Gavanndra rel...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This episode is part 2, of my interview with the wonderful Oscar nominated Costume Designer and Fashion Stylist Arianne Phillips. In this episode Arianne talks about being nominated for awards , especially the Oscars, plus her support to sustainability and onwards…
Jan 17, 2022•50 min
My guest on this 1st of a 2 parter episode is the marvellous 3 X Oscar Nominated Costume Designer and Fashion Stylist, Arianne Phillips. US born Arianne is one of the most lauded costume designers and fashion stylists of our generation. She chats with me about her upbringing, how she got into fashion, music and film and how her amazing career unfolded.
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 30 min
My guest on this episode is the wonderful barber Tom Chapman. Tom is also an author, public speaker and charity founder. He talks to me about his upbringing, playing music, training to be a hairdresser then becoming a barber. Following the sad, sudden death of a close friend he founded the super successful charity Lions Barber Collective, where they train barbers ( and now hairdressers too) to recognise mental health issues in clients and aid in the prevention of suicide.
Jan 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This episode is part two of a two part episode, with my first guest of Series 3, make-up maven, Lisa Eldridge. Raised in New Zealand and Liverpool Lisa is considered as one of the most top, respected make-up artists of her generation and is also an award winning Business women, NY Times Best selling author and Youtuber. Lisa gave me a tour of her latest Pop-up shop, currently open in Covent Garden London until December 31st 2021, then we sat and chatted all things House of Eldridge. from her hum...
Dec 19, 2021•1 hr 5 min
This episode is part one of a two part episode, with my first guest of Series 3, make-up maven, Lisa Eldridge. Raised in New Zealand and Liverpool Lisa is considered as one of the most top, respected make-up artists of her generation and is also an award winning Business women, NY Times Best selling author and Youtuber. Lisa gave me a tour of her latest Pop-up shop, currently open in Covent Garden London until December 31st 2021, then we sat and chatted all things House of Eldridge. from her hum...
Dec 18, 2021•46 min
For episode 11 of series 2 I’m so excited to announce that I’m joined by a dear friend of mine, make-up artist extraordinaire Lucia Pieroni. I interviewed Lucia a couple of weeks before the UK's COVID 19 outbreak in her North West London home and this episode is being released during the UK pandemic lockdown. Lucia and I have shared flats and apartments together and also holidayed together as good friends and as toe dipping yogis. I felt very honoured that she agreed to do the podcast with me as...
Apr 19, 2020•1 hr 17 min
I’m joined by the wonderful make-up artist & young entrepreneur Zoë Taylor in this episode. Born and raised in London, Zoë went from studying art & design at college to doing a course on beauty therapy which is where her love of make-up really began. After leaving beauty therapy school she eventually went on to assisting one of the biggest make-up artists in the world before going it alone, and has since forged a career as one of the leading make-up artists in the UK & internationall...
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 13 min
My guests in this episode are the fabulous Erin O'Connor and Jade Parfitt who both began modelling just after the Kate Moss grunge furore in the early 90's. Like Kate their careers went stratospheric, being shot by the best photographers for the biggest magazines, ad campaigns and walking the runways for the biggest fashion houses in the world. Unlike Kate though, these 2 women were both over 6 feet tall and defined another new era of models, whose looks were so individual that they could never ...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Entrepreneur Kathryn Danzey began training in beauty back in 1973 so with over 40 years of experience she has channelled all her expansive knowledge into her multi award winning, family run company Rejuvenated UK and the 3 books she has written. They were the 1st company to come up with idea of a potent collagen drink for general health and well being. In this interview she tells me about her childhood, her training, how Rejuvenated started and where they’re going next, plus how her wealth of kn...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr
This episode forms the 3rd and final part of a special trilogy featuring the New York born Francesca Sorrenti. Francesca and I are also joined by our dear friend Karl Plewka, Stylist and editor of Beuaty Papers magazine who I invited to join me to co-host the interview. This special trilogy of interviews, Karl and I have chose to call "The Godmother" Like Mario Puzo’s fictional Sicilian-American family of the The Godfather series, the Sorrentis are to fashion what the Corleones were to organised...
Feb 17, 2020•57 min
This episode forms the 2nd part of a special trilogy of interviews featuring the amazing New York born, stylist turned photographer, mother and curator, Francesca Sorrenti. Francesca and I are also joined on this trilogy by our dear friend Karl Plewka, Stylist and Editor of Beauty Papers magazine who I invited to join me to co-host the interview. This special Trilogy of interviews, Karl and I have chosen to call 'The Godmother' Like Mario Puzo’s fictional Sicilian-American family of the The Godf...
Feb 10, 2020•49 min
This episode forms the 1st part of a special trilogy featuring the escapades of the amazing Francesca Sorrenti. Francesca and I are also joined on this trilogy by our dear friend Karl Plewka, stylist and editor of Beauty Papers magazine who I invited to join me to do the interview. This special Trilogy of interviews I have chosen to call The Godmother. Like Mario Puzo’s fictional Sicilian-American family of the The Godfather series, the Sorrentis are to fashion what the Corleones were to organis...
Feb 03, 2020•46 min
My guest in this episode is the lovely and amazing Dr. Michael Brady. Michael is a very important Doctor within the UK's NHS and husband to celebrity hairstylist Mathew Soobroy. In April 2019 Michael was appointed as the first ever National Advisor for LGBTQ+ Health with the aim being to reduce health inequalities for LGBTQ+ communities and improve their experience of health and social care. After studying Medicine in Nottingham and moving around the UK with the NHS, he ended up at the Kings Col...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 11 min
I met Zoe in her south London studio where we chatted about her growing up in the south of England, starting out as a hairdresser turned entrepreneur manicurist and co-founder of Nail Rocks, suffering from depression, and recovering from that through learning to up-cycle furniture and unexpectedly turning it into a new business which lead to her also becoming a TV presenter too.
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 15 min
In this episode my guest is Danny Gray founder of War Paint for Men. Danny grew up just outside of London and began to suffer from body dysmorphic disorder in his early teenage years. On leaving school he went from creating his own bouncing castle hire company to becoming a travelling salesman, until his mental health issues manifested and began to get in the way. After taking time to try and deal with them he decided to start a men’s make-up line, based on the fact, from a teenager he wore make...
Dec 23, 2019•1 hr 7 min
My guests on this episode are the amazing, make-up artists and Youtube sensations, sisters Sam Chapman and Nicola Chapman Haste, aka Pixiwoo. Born in Essex and growing up in Norwich, Sam and Nic grew up with domestic violence in their childhood home. Overcoming these troubled early years with amazing support from their mother they both followed the same m-up route, studying at college, then going on to work for MAC Cosmetics and Estee Lauder. In 2008, during the latter stages of pregnancy, Sam p...
Dec 21, 2019•1 hr 13 min
In this episode I'm joined by the courageous and unbelievably inspiring 19 year old Ben West. Ben lost his 15 year old brother Sam in Jan 2018 after Sam tragically took his own life, on what was a normal Sunday evening at their family home. Following this terribly sad incident, Ben decided to channel his grief into saving others the same pain he and his family have suffered, through campaigning for mandatory training in mental health first aid, for all educators of the UK’s young people, With th...
Dec 18, 2019•1 hr 12 min
My guest on this episode is Serena Rees MBE. Serena grew up in Central London working various jobs, and in 1994, tired of seeing women dressed in drab undergarments - came up with the idea to start a lingerie store in partnership with her then husband Joe Corré, son of Vivienne Westwood. That store was Agent Provocateur. The first shop was on Broadwick Street in Soho London. Agent Provocateur grew into a brand spanning into 13 different countries with over 30 stores. Following Serena & Joe’s...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 3 min
My guest on this episode is Karl Plewka, legendary fashion stylist, consultant, and the current editor of Beauty Papers Magazine in the UK. He regularly collaborated with our dear friend, iconic photographer Corinne Day on numerous shoots from Vogue magazine through to iD. On August 28th 2019, exactly 9 years to the day of the passing of Corinne, we were sat in my flat having a conversation. reminiscing about meeting, knowing, collaborating and working with Corinne, raising a little toast to her...
Aug 31, 2019•1 hr 9 min
My guest on this episode is Bay Garnett who was born in Bath, is a stylist, author, editor, wife and mother of 2 She studied art history and modern history at the University of Exeter gaining her first work experience in Venice and New York In the 90’s Bay co-launched the New York version of underground, anti-fashion magazine Cheap Date, which began in London The magazine was completely based around Thrift store clothing ( or second hand clothing as it was then known in the UK) . She went on to ...
Jun 17, 2019•52 min
My guest on this episode is a born and raised Essex geyser, who began hairdressing in 1978 after falling for a girl who worked in a local salon. Luckily he fell in love with hairdressing too and he went on to open his own salon 10 years later. Stewart came to visit me in London where we talked about him being 13 years sober from alcohol, setting up The Sober Living Action Group in 2013, a programme with holistic treatments for alcoholics, and also in Nov 2014 creating the award winning Haircuts ...
May 20, 2019•52 min
My guests on this episode each have over 25 years of experience in the beauty industry. Anna Marie worked her way through the ranks as a beauty journalist eventually becoming UK Vogue's Beauty Director for 6 years, eventually leaving to go freelance. She is one of the most respected beauty journalists in the UK. Millie is the ultimate queen of PR and marketing, having successfully launched many beauty brands to the UK( hence her MBE for services to the Beauty Industry) Together they are the co-f...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Marian Newman is a world renowned manicurist. Born in London and a true cockney who was born within the sound of the Bow Bells, her early love for sciences lead her into working for the forensic dept within the police force, but after having children, she changed direction to go and study make-up, where she discovered nails and manicures, going on to open one of the first nail only salons in the UK in the late 80’s. Following a chance shooting with fashion photographer Nick Knight, Marian began ...
May 06, 2019•1 hr 18 min
My guest on this episode is top British male model turned movement coach Roger Frampton. Born in Northamptonshire, but spending his teen years growing up in East London he began weight training at 15, and trained as a carpenter when he left school Scouted as a model at the age of 19, Roger modelled for 15 years and continues to do so for special projects. He was also a personal trainer but a chance gymnastics class, made him re-think his training regime, focusing on movement instead of fitness. ...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 5 min
My guest today is the wonderful Lucinda Chambers. Born and bred in Notting Hill Gate, West London, Lucinda was introduced to fashion very early on by her mother who was very crafty and one of her skills was dressmaking. She started her fashion journey when she decided to make and sell her own earring designs at Camden Market whilst she was at Art college, eventually working her way up the ranks of the top editorial fashion magazines. Lucinda became the fashion Director of British Vogue for 25 ye...
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr 31 min
