Former fashion editor and co-editor of i-D Magazine for 6 years in the early eighties, Caryn Franklin has been a fashion commentator for 29 years. She presented the BBC’s Clothes Show for 12 years and BBC’s Style Challenge for 3 years as well as producing and presenting numerous documentaries for ITV on designers including Vivienne Westwood, Philip Treacy and Matthew Williamson as well as various other programmes including ‘Style Academy,’ ‘Frock and Roll Years,’ and ‘Style Bible.’ She has written for many magazines and newspapers and has produced 4 books to including a novel ‘Woman in the Mirror,’ published by Harper Collins.
Working in education throughout her career as external assessor and lecturer in colleges like Central St Martins, London College of fashion and Royal College of Art she is also an ardent fashion activist and has co-chaired award winning Fashion Targets Breast Cancer for 15 years which helped build and maintain Britain’s first dedicated breast cancer research centre; she is a visiting research fellow at London College of Fashion, and honorary Research Fellow at The Arts University College Bournemouth and she proposed the London College of Fashion, Centre of Sustainability and is its ambassador.
Debra’s career in the communications industry has been many and varied, from working with The Beatles to design UN-award-winning eco-aware hemp T-shirts, to co-directing Lynne Franks PR, to providing PR and brand consultancy numerous clients from Jean Paul Gaultier to Swatch and Proctor and Gamble. She has contributed to a number of publications, as executive fashion editor to Arena and Arena Homme Plus; contributing editor to GQ Magazine and creative consultant to Frank Magazine.
Debra has also maintained an 18-year personal commitment to psychotherapy training. It was the mix of Debra’s experience of the fashion industry and her communications background with her dedication to an understanding of our inner worlds that acted as a catalyst to co-found All Walks Beyond the Catwalk with Caryn and Erin as a vehicle to inspire and empower.
Although she planned to make it as a dancer, Erin O’ Connor’s career took a different route in 1996 after being scouted in Birmingham. Within just a few months she found herself working with Richard Avedon on the Versace campaign.
With her graceful presence and statuesque beauty, Erin is able to single-handedly purvey a dynamic new look and has acted as a muse for numerous designers, artists and photographers including Chanel, Givency, Valentino and Armani – to name but a few. To this day Erin is one of the only living people to have appeared on a postage stamp, shot by Nick Knight.
Erin’s work extends far beyond the catwalk and is Vice Chairman of London Fashion Week for the British Fashion Council. She continues to write on a regular basis, and has written for leading publications including The Times, I-D Magazine, The Guardian, and a fortnightly blog for leading fashion website, Vogue.com.
After contributing to The Model’s Health Enquiry, In 2007 Erin set up The Model Sanctuary. Along with stylist Kate Halfpenny, Erin has launched her own line of fair-trade cotton t shirts. Erin was appointed as a trustee for the V&A Museum and regularly chairs forums there for art and fashion students.
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