Katie Grand
Katie Grand | |
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Katie Grand in London 2013 | |
| Born | 1 April 1971 |
| Occupation(s) | stylist and creative director |
Katie Grand Born in Leeds 1 April 1971, Katie Eleanor Grand grew up in Selly Oak, Birmingham and is a British fashion stylist and creative director, who is Editor-in-Chief of LOVE Magazine, which she founded in 2009, as well as Contributing Fashion Creative Director of W Magazine.
For Autumn/Winter 2019 she styled shows for Marc Jacobs, Matty Bovan, Miu Miu, Richard Quinn, Julie de Libran Couture, and newcomer Tomo Koizumi, as well as creating Advertising Campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Miu Miu, and MSGM.
Life and career
Early life
An early obsession with fashion led her to study BA Fashion Design with Print at Central Saint Martins. In 1993, during her year out, she launched Dazed & Confused magazine with Jefferson Hack and Rankin. None of them realised just how important to their generation this fold-up, pamphlet-style fanzine – as it was back then – would become. In her role as Fashion Director, the influence of Dazed grew as the magazine became a heavyweight tome.
Fashion career
DAZED
As the original Fashion Director of Dazed, Katie styled Gigi Hadid for their 25th anniversary cover in 2017, shot by Rankin, also commissioning Lila Belle Moss to interview Gigi for the issue.
In 1993, during her year out from studying at Central Saint Martins, she launched Dazed & Confused magazine with Jefferson Hack and Rankin. None of them realised just how important to their generation this fold-up, pamphlet-style fanzine – as it was back then – would become. In her role as Fashion Director, the influence of Dazed grew.
ANOTHER
Grand was launch editor for the pilot magazine and the two subsequent issues.
THE FACE
Inspired by a copy of The Face she bought in 1984, she decided then that she wanted to go into the world of magazines.
In September 1999 she became Fashion Director of The Face
POP
In 2000, the publishers of The Face approached her about launching a new fashion/art title. This quickly materialised as POP magazine, heralding the arrival of the luxury superglossy women’s biannual as the most authoritative format in fashion publishing. The inaugural issue featured a group of her friends as pole dancers on its cover including Katie Hillier, Liberty Ross, Luella Bartley, Phoebe Philo, Stella McCartney.
LOVE
Following eight years and 20 issues of POP, she was invited by Condé Nast to launch a new biannual, which became LOVE Magazine, launching February 2009 with a naked Beth Ditto on its cover.
- movingLOVE is a close collaboration between Katie Grand, directors Call This Number who are Steve Mackey and Douglas Hart, who shot the films in London and New York using vintage analogue video equipment.
Late 2016, together with Kendall Jenner, she launched #LOVEME17, a cross-media search to find an icon for the next generation to be photographed by Kendall for the cover of the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of LOVE Magazine. Of the 110,000 who got in touch, 25 were selected. A long-standing relationship with Kendall began when Katie cast her in Marc Jacobs’ Autumn/Winter 2014 show which literally catapulted her onto the global fashion stage. #LOVEME17 is Kendall’s second photography commission by Katie for LOVE, having previously shot Kaia Gerber for the Autumn/Winter 2016 issue.
BOOKS
Along with Giles Deacon and Sølve Sundsbø, she produced a photographic tome ‘Giles, Sølve and Katie,’ documenting 13 years of Giles. A close collaborator, she has styled Giles’ shows from February 2004 and continues to work with him on his couture collections.
FASHION INDUSTRY
When Katie presented Adriana Lima with her Fashion Icon Award at Daily Front Row’s 5th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards, Adriana responded: ‘There were times when I did struggle with my work, that I did not feel confident enough, beautiful enough, and Katie, she still chose me to do a campaign. I was losing my confidence and you just gave it back to me, and so what I’m trying to say, is that this woman beside me is so talented, she has a wonderful heart, truly, and I have seen it, thank you so much.’
Walking Daily Front Row’s 5th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards red carpet, Jaime King, told reporters: 'I left the fashion industry and the only person that could bring me back was Katie. There’s few people that have the vision that she does. If she calls, I’ll do anything.'
When LOVE won 'Best September Issue’ at Daily Front Row 4th Annual Fashion Media Awards, Adriana Lima, in presenting Katie Grand with the award, told the audience she was: 'The Dr Dre, Pharrell Williams and Kanye of fashion, but just a little more badass,’
Kaia Gerber in accepting her Female Model of the Year award at Daily Front Row 4th Annual Fashion Media Awards, said: 'Katie Grand, thank you for including me in your creative vision, every time I work with you I feel so honoured,’
At Daily Front Row’s 2nd Annual Fashion Media Awards, Kendall Jenner presented Katie Grand with ‘International Fashion Magazine of the Year’ award for LOVE, with Kendall saying of Katie: 'Her contributions to the fashion industry are a constant source of new ideas that are a beautiful reminder to all of us that this business was always meant to be a celebration of creativity.'
‘When a talent is enduring enough to outpace the industry’s ebbs and flows to carve out a career spanning decades, one stands up and takes notice. Katie Grand is one such talent. London-based Grand’s body of work reads like a fashion rap sheet, and her titles are many: she is a stylist, an editor, and a creative director. She is what every millennial multitasker wants to be, with all the credits to prove it. Unofficially, she is the go-to arbiter of cool, a visionary, someone with her finger firmly on the pulse of the zeitgeist.’ Forbes, February 2017
Kendall Jenner appeared on The Tonight Show in February 2017, telling host Jimmy Fallon about her new photography vocation with LOVE Magazine, name-checking Katie Grand, and showing him her #LOVEME17 covers.
Katie Grand sits on the British Fashion Council’s Press Committee.
QUOTES
"The Dr Dre, Pharrell Williams and Kanye of fashion, but just a little more badass.” Adriana Lima at the recent Daily Front Row 4th Annual Fashion Media Awards in New York, presenting Katie Grand with LOVE’s 'Best September Issue’ award
“Love magazine, a biannual bible of cool whose editor-in-chief, Katie Grand, is accepted as high fashion’s premier harbinger of hip.” The Independent
"LOVE Magazine, the British bi-annual with its finger on the throbbing pulse of fashion” The Sunday Telegraph
“Katie Grand - a Jedi master of the fashion industry” The Guardian
"Katie Grand, the British fashion editor known for her ability to make a brand relevant to the zeitgeist." The Guardian
- MOVINGLOVE
Conceived by Katie Grand and Derek Blasberg, #MOVINGLOVE launched in December 2018, marking the first instance of a fashion print magazine migrating entirely to a moving-image medium, and one of the first original-content projects to be launched in collaboration with YouTube Fashion and Beauty.
The first series launched in December 2018, comprising 54 videos with over 15 million views to date, with David Beckham styled by Kim Jones, followed by Adriana Lima, Adwoa Aboah, Andie McDowell, April Ashley, Ashley Graham, Bella Hadid, Beth Ditto, Blondey McCoy, Bria Vinaite, Cara Delevingne, Cindy Crawford, Courtney Love, Eva Herzigova, Finn Buchanan, Fran Summers, Hari Nef, Jaime King, Kaia Gerber, Kate Moss, Kelela, Kembra Pfahler, Kesewa Aboah, Liv Tyler, Matty Bovan, Neneh Cherry, Paris Jackson, Paul Simonon, Rita Ora, Rowan Blanchard, Sandra Bernhard, Sara Sampaio, Slick Woods, Stella Maxwell, Uma Thurman, Violet Chachki, and Winnie Harlow, amongst others. LOVE’s video projects in the year prior had generated over 173 million unique views online.
The latest series featuring moving image content from LOVE's 22nd issue for Autumn/Winter 2019, recently launched with The Ben Cobb Show, starring Rami Malek in his first film since his Oscar win for his role in Bohemian Rhapsody. Directed by Call This Number, and styled by Katie Grand, it also stars Felicity Jones, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emily Ratajkowski, Fran Summers, Karen Elson, Meghan Roche, Martha Hunt, Jean Campbell, Tang He, and AnOther Man Editor-in-Chief Ben Cobb, who plays himself.
STYLING
Katie Grand is stylist and advisor of Marc Jacobs Womenswear shows from Spring/Summer 2013 to present, including resort shows from 2014 - 2017, and styled three Marc Jacobs Menswear shows from Autumn/Winter 2005 to Spring/Summer 2006.
She styled 18 Louis Vuitton Womenswear shows during Marc Jacobs' tenure as Creative Director, for Autumn/Winter 2005 until Spring/Summer 2014, including four Menswear shows from Spring/Summer 2005 to Autumn/Winter 2006.
She has styled Prada shows from Autumn/Winter 2002 to Autumn/Winter 2005, and Miu Miu shows and campaigns since Autumn/Winter 2016 to present, incuding Resort and Prefall shows, having also previously styled several shows for Prada and Miu Miu from Autumn/Winter 2002 until Spring Summer 2005.
She is a Creative Consultant for Matty Bovan working on his Autumn/Winter 2017 and Spring/Summer 2018 shows with Fashion East, and his subsequent solo shows from Autumn/Winter 2018 to present (Autumn/Winter 2019), also connecting him with Stephen Jones, Coach and Gina.
She styled Julie de Libran's Autumn/Winter 2019 couture show.
She styled Tomo Koizumi's Autumn/Winter 2019 show.
She has styled Schiaparelli Couture shows from Spring/Summer 2018 – Autumn/Winter 2019.
In December 2017, she styled an exclusive episode of The Muppets entitled #LoveMuppets directed by Rankin. She dressed the all-star cast in Miu Miu, including Adesuwa Aighewi, Adwoa Aboah, Barbara Palvin, Derek Blasberg, Dilone, Doutzen Kroes, Edie Campbell, Eliza Cummings, Gwendoline Christie, Hailey Baldwin, Jean Campbell, Joan Smalls, Katie herself, Lily Nova, Matty Bovan, Nick Grimshaw, Poppy Delevingne, Rita Ora, and Winnie Harlow, as well as Muppet favourites: Animal, Beaker, Floyd Pepper, Fozzie Bear, Janice, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Sam Eagle, Uncle Deadly, and Scooter.
She has styled Giles’ shows for Autumn/Winter 2004 to Spring/Summer 2016 and continues to work with him on documenting his couture collections, including his Autumn/Winter 2016 Couture Show.
She previously styled Amie Robertson’s show (also Fashion East) for Autumn/Winter 2016.
She styled Jonathan Saunders Womenswear shows for Autumn/Winter 2009 to Spring/Summer 2016.
She styled Gucci's Spring/Summer 2015 show.
She has styled Bottega Veneta Womenswear shows from Spring/Summer 2000 to Spring/Summer 2001, Spring Summer 2014, Autumn/Winter 2015, and Autumn/Winter 2016 to Autumn/Winter 2017, as well as their Women's and Men's combined Shows for Autumn/Winter 2014 and Spring/Summer 2015.
She styled tow Dunhill shows; Spring/Summer 2015 and Autumn/Winter 2015.
She styled Sonia Rykiel shows for Autumn/Winter 2014 and Spring/Summer 2015.
She styled three Sister by Sibling shows from Spring/Summer 2013 until Spring/Summer 2014.
She styled three Emanuel Ungaro shows from Autumn/Winter 2011 to Spring/Summer 2012.
She styled D&G's Autumn/Winter 2010 show.
She styled Proenza Schouler's Autumn/Winter 2008 show.
She styled four TOPSHOP Unique shows for Autumn/Winter 2008, Spring/Summer 2009, Spring/Summer 2010, and Spring/Summer 2011.
and advertising campaigns from February 2014 to January 2018, and styled Dunhill [menswear] shows for Spring/Summer 2015 and Autumn/Winter 2014/15, and the Dunhill advertising campaign for Autumn/Winter 2015.
She styled three Daks shows, from Autumn/Winter 2007 to Autumn/Winter 2008.
She styled CK's Spring/Summer 2004 show.
She styled Luella Bartley's 'Luella' shows from Autumn/Winter 2000 to Spring/Summer 2010.
She styled the Roberto Cavalli Autumn/Winter 2000 show.
In October 2014, she styled a Giles show spectacular at Kensington Palace, an exploration of Giles Deacon's archive collections, with millinery by Stephen Jones.
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
Miu Miu seasonally from Autumn/Winter 2002 to Autumn/Winter 2004 and then Autumn/Winter 2012 until present including Resort and Prefall campaigns
Miu Miu Eau Rose 2017
Creative Director and Stylist for Marc Jacobs Beauty from 2013 until present
Creative Director and Stylist for Marc Jacobs women's and men's campaigns seasonally from Spring/Summer 2013 to present
Creative Director and Stylist for Marc Jacobs Daisy 2017 and 2018
Creative Director and Stylist for Marc Jacobs Divine Decadence 2015 and 2016
MSGM Autumn/Winter 2017 and Spring/Summer 2018
Oscar de la Renta Autumn/Winter 2016
Bottega Veneta Autumn/Winter 2000 to Spring/Summer 2001, then from Autumn/Winter 2014 to Autumn/Winter 2017, including women's and men's Autumn/Winter 2014 and Spring/Summer 2015 campaigns
Dunhill Autumn/Winter 2015
Art Director and Stylist for Balmain Spring/Summer 2014 as well as their menswear campaign
Miss Dior Spring/Summer 2014
Sonia Rykiel Autumn/Winter 2014
Marc By Marc Autumn/Winter 2014
Katie Grand loves Hogan Spring/Summer 2013, Autumn/Winter 2013, and Spring/Summer 2014, and edited an accompanying magazine 'Gang'
Dolce & Gabbana Beauty 2012
Tom Ford Beauty 2011
Max & Co Autumn/Winter 2011
Siviglia Spring/Summer 2010 and Spring/Summer 2011
DSquared2 Autumn/Winter 2009, Autumn/Winter 2011, Spring/Summer 2011 and Autumn/Winter 2012
Gina Autumn/Winter 2010, Autumn/Winter 2011 and Spring/Summer 2011
Dior Homme Perfume 2009
Bulgari Autumn/Winter 2008
Iceberg Autumn/Winter 2008
CK Autumn/Winter 2008
Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2008
Emporio Armani Autumn/Winter 2007 and Autumn/Winter 2008
Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2004, Autumn/Winter 2007, Spring/Summer 2008 and Autumn/Winter 2008
Loewe Autumn/Winter 2008 seasonally until Spring/Summer 2012
Loewe Leather 2010
Loewe Leather Icons 2011
Loewe Made To Order 2010 and 2011
Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2002 seasonally until Spring/Summer 2008 plus Louis Vuitton Cruise campaigns seasonally from 2006 to 2009
Pollini Spring/Summer 2009
H&M Autumn/Winter 2007
Hugo Boss Autumn/Winter 1999 seasonally to Spring/Summer 2007
Sergio Rossi Spring/Summer 2002, Spring/Summer 2003, Autumn/Winter 2003, Spring/Summer 2005
Gucci Perfume 2003 and 2004
Very Valentino Perfume 2004
Fendi Autumn/Winter 2002 and Spring/Summer 2003
Anna Molinari Spring/Summer 2000 and Autumn/Winter 2004
Lancome 2002
Miss Sixty Autumn/Winter 2002
CURATING
In December 2015, Katie co-curated with Gucci’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele, his first exhibition for Gucci, entitled ‘No Longer / Not Yet’, at Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai.
In February 2012, she curated 'Louise Vuitton - Marc Jacobs', an exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. A film for which she was Creative Director, FANCLUB, directed by Ruth Hogben, and celebrating 14 years of Louis Vuitton, was screened as part of the exhibition.
In May 2010, she curated Louis Vuitton's first ever exhibition to celebrate their ready to wear, which formed the centrepiece to the first Louis Vuitton Maison on London's Bond Street, which has since been restaged in Moscow and, in May 2011, Paris.
Katie curated 2012's BBC Children in Need 'Designer Pudsey Collection', drawing in designers like Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Prada and Tom Ford, and raising £380,000.
In May 2012, she was Creative Director of 'Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations' MET catalogue, which accompanied 'Elsa Schiaparelli and Miucci Prada: On Fashion' exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art.
In October 2009, she was the stylist for the 4th annual Fashion Rocks in Rio de Janeiro, overseeing the whole event to great acclaim.
In February 2009, she was invited to oversee Prada's Old Bond Street store in London as part of The Iconoclasts project where she took charge of their visual identity.
Personal life
Katie lives in London’s Tufnell Park with her musician husband Steve Mackey, best known as the bass guitarist of Pulp, also co-founder of analogue video creators Call This Number. Their Hungarian Vizsla, Red, also resides with them.