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Zara Simon
What are you up to at the moment?
Finishing my A/W ’10 jewellery collection and starting to make samples for my S/S11 collection.
Where do you get inspiration for your designs?
Textures, colours and shapes in nature and urban environments … Read more →
Philippa Holland
Where do you live and why?
Hillgate Village in Notting Hill. It’s a cheery rainbow-coloured area located between two parks with a great pub, The Hillgate [24 Hillgate Street], which is covered in flowers.
Where do you get inspiration for
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Rebekah Roy
Where do you live and why?
Fulham. It’s quite convenient for me and it’s close to my agency.
What’s in your secret west London address book?
I love Suzannah [6 Bristol Gardens, W9]. She makes beautiful clothes that are so … Read more →
Martin Miller
Where do you live?
Notting Hill.
What’s on your west London cultural hit list?
I like the Tabernacle and Angus Broadbent [of his eponymous gallery] is a personal friend.
What’s happening to Miller’s Academy [the popular arts and science centre
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David Higgins
How does LA, where you started your career, compare to west London?
I believe the fitness industry in LA is very superficial. It’s all about how you look as a trainer and who your celebrity clients are whereas West London … Read more →
Justin Sandercoe
Who inspired you to take up the guitar?
As far back as I can remember I have played guitar. My parents tell me that as a child I would get very excited seeing anyone play guitar on the television. At … Read more →
Karen Earl
Where did you grow up and what brought you to London?
I came to London from Newmarket, Suffolk, straight after I finished my A Levels in 1968 when I was 17 years old. I took a secretarial course in South … Read more →
Rowley Leigh
Where do you live and why?
Shepherd’s Bush. We moved there because I couldn’t afford Notting Hill prices. Now I wouldn’t want to live in Notting Hill anyway.
Who or what sparked your love of cooking?
Greed and my mother.… Read more →
George Lewis
What are you currently working on?
I have been busy creating a collection of paintings and photographs that reflect the beauty and poetry of movement of English National Ballet dancers. The dancers work tirelessly, often working seven days a week … Read more →
Tomer Danan
Who or what inspired you to take up the drums?
I took up the drums because it was the instrument I got stuck with in the school band and roughly around the same time my neighborhood friends and I decided … Read more →
