Iain R Webb

Iain R Webb is an award winning writer and Visiting Professor of Fashion at Royal College of Art. He now lives in Bath where he consults for the Fashion Museum and muses over his life in frocks. www.hopeandglitter.wordpress.com


IAIN R WEBB studied fashion design at St Martin’s School of Art (now Central Saint Martins), graduating in 1980. During his career he has been fashion editor/director of Blitz, The Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, The Times and Elle, while contributing to various publications including New Musical Express, Saturday Telegraph, The Independent and Vogue. He won the Fashion Journalist of The Year Award two years running in 1995 and ‘96. A respected fashion writer, he is the author of Bill Gibb, Fashion and Fantasy; Foale and Tuffin: The Sixties. A Decade in Fashion, and Postcards From the Edge of the Catwalk. His latest book, As seen In BLITZ: Fashioning '80s Style, was published in 2013. He acts as a consultant at the Fashion Museum in Bath and is Professor of Fashion at Royal College of Art. www.hopeandglitter.wordpress.com