Professor Iain R Webb
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Fashion
- School of Design
Professor of Fashion & Design
- Email:
- i.webb@kingston.ac.uk
About
I was appointed Professor of Fashion and Design at Kingston School of Art in 2016. I am Fashion Features Editor-at-Large of Ponystep magazine, an associate lecturer at CSM and RCA and act as creative consultant at the Fashion Museum, Bath.
I originally studied fashion design at St Martin's School of Art, graduating in 1980.
During my career, I have been fashion editor of BLITZ, The Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, The Times and Elle. I won the Fashion Journalist of The Year Award in 1995 (its inaugural year) and 1996.
Other journalistic contributions include New York Times, New Musical Express, The Guardian, Vogue, Rollacoaster, Shortlist, The Huffington Post, The Independent, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, Town, V&A magazine, Selvedge, Gut, www.centmagazine.co.uk
I have consulted and collaborated with leading brands, including Selfridges, LVMH, Gucci, Burberry, Cutler & Gross, M&S, Ghost, Kangol, MaxMara, Jigsaw, River Island, Day Birger et Mikkelsen, George and Elizabeth Arden.
Qualifications
- BA Fashion Design - St Martin's School of Art
Domains
I have always approached fashion as an artistic endeavour.
My work has always been autobiographical/memoir. I am fascinated by the presentation and reading of fashion as individual interpretation. The personal perspective/singular vision of the writer, designer, commentator, creator is crucial. In this day and age, this is a particularly valuable currency. Information is abundant, but how it is interpreted, packaged, and re-presented (remade and remodelled) is everything. The access to a unique, personal archive has tremendous appeal.
I am drawn to storytelling through documented objects/artefacts/memorabilia/ephemera that offers shared experience and becomes a springboard for further exploration, investigation, and contemplation of and around the subject.
My work is a curated/edited collection of moments and memories (some newly imagined), combined with new work created in response to these original objects. Every object has been designed, considered and constructed.
My work celebrates process.
My work is a juxtaposition of words and pictures.
Publications
Rebel stylist : Caroline Baker - the woman who invented street fashion
Webb, Iain R. (2021). Woodbridge, U.K.: (ACC Art Books)
John Galliano for Dior
Fairer, Robert, Webb, Iain R., Talley, André Leon, Bowles, Hamish and Cullen, Oriole (2019). London, U.K.:
Vogue goes pop : colouring book
Webb, Iain R. (2016). London, U.K.: (Conran Octopus)
Graduate Fashion Week, 1991-2016
Webb, Iain (2016). (Graduate Fashion Week)
Vogue colouring book
Webb, Iain R. (2015). London, U.K.: (Conran Octopus)
As seen in BLITZ: fashioning '80s style
Webb, Iain (2013). Woodbridge, U.K.: (ACC Editions)
Postcards from the edge of the catwalk
Webb, Iain R (2010). Woodbridge, U.K.: (ACC Editions)
Foale and Tuffin: the sixties : a decade in fashion
Webb, Iain R. (2009). Woodbridge, U.K.: (ACC Editions)
Bill Gibb : fashion and fantasy
Webb, Iain R. (2008). London, U.K.:
The fashion year. Volume III
(1985). London, U.K.: (Zomba Books)
Marc Jacobs Unseen
Fairer, Robert and Webb, Iain R (2018). In: Wilson, Jenny, (eds.) and Sabatini, Adelia, (eds.), Marc Jacobs Unseen. UK:
Fashion and art
Webb, Iain (2012). In: British Fashion Council, (ed.), Fashion and Art Collusion. London, U.K.: Booth-Clibborn Editions, pp 11-17
In Conversation with Craig Green and Gordon Richardson
Webb, Iain R, Green, Criag and Richardson, Gordon(2015). In: In Conversation, 28 Oct 2015 :Bath, U.K.
Bill Gibb : fashion and fantasy
Webb, Iain(2009). In: The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, 29 Mar - 05 Apr 2009 :Oxford, U.K.
Bill Gibb : beyond the seams
Webb, Iain R.(2008). In: Colloquium : Textiles, Dress and the Production of Space, 16 Jun 2008 :London, U.K.
Fashion on tour
Webb, Iain R (2015).
Invitation Strictly Personal
Webb, Iain R (2015).
We're Not Here To Sell Clothes: The Making of BLITZ Fashion
Webb, Iain R (2013).
You're Ugly and Your Mother Dresses You Funny
Webb, Iain R (2013).
Stephen Jones : from Georgiana to Boy George
Webb, Iain R (2012).
Stephen Jones : from Georgiana to Boy Boy George
Webb, Iain R (2012).
Sport and Fashion
Webb, Iain R and Harden, Rosemary (2012).
Helmut Lang
Webb, Iain (2010).
Bill Gibb: A Personal Journey
Webb, Iain R (2009).