Little Guides to Style: The Visionaries

A stylist and journalist specializing in fashion and beauty, Laia Farran Graves has also worked for such publications as Vogue, InStyle, Glamour, Marie Claire and the Sunday Times Style magazine. Laia lives in Brighton, England. Karen Homer is an established fashion journalist who worked as a fashion columnist for The Times and has contributed to the Telegraph, Harpers & Queen, Elle, World of Interiors and Vogue. She is the bestselling author of the Little Book of Dior and Things a Woman Should Know About Style. She lives in London. Glenys Johnson is a Canadian writer based in London, UK and Malmö, Sweden. Her work focuses on fashion and material culture, including the study of queer style, and costume theory in film and television. Her work has been published in High Snobiety, Huffington Post and Kennedy Magazine and she is the author of Icons of Style: Diana and Little Book of Vivienne Westwood. Jessica Bumpus is a freelance fashion journalist, a Contributing Editor to THE WEEK FASHION, and the former Fashion Features Editor at British Vogue online (2007-2015). She graduated from London College of Fashion in 2006 with a First Class BA Hons in Fashion Promotion, specialising in Journalism. Her career began at Condé Nast working online (as a production assistant, within the year being promoted to working solely on Vogue as Fashion Features Editor - part of which involved travelling to the seasonal international shows). Since going full-time freelance, she regularly writes for the New York Times International, THE WEEK FASHION, ELLE USA, and has written for NYLON, CNN Style, Konfekt, Rocks, Maybourne Magazine and Twin magazine, among others. She has also been a guest speaker and panellist at a variety of talks and events, including Craft Week and for SHOWstudio.