Gene Krell is an American fashion entrepreneur, designer, and journalist. Krell is the international fashion director for the Japanese editions of Vogue and GQ, the creative director for the Korean editions of Vogue, Vogue Girl, and W, as well as a creative consultant to Allure and GQ Korea. Krell was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. In 1969, Freddie Hornik, Krell and

Marty Breslau Granny Takes a Trip was a boutique opened in February 1966 at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. The shop, which was acquired by Freddie Hornik in 1969, remained open until the mi ...

took over the legendary boutique '' Granny Takes a Trip'' and together they expanded the business, adding shops in New York and Los Angeles. After leaving Granny's, Krell worked with

Vivienne Westwood Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (née Swire; born 8 April 1941) is an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. Westwood came to public notice when she m ...

, becoming Westwood's "right-hand man". Krell credits Westwood with getting him off heroin. Krell lives in Tokyo with his wife, the merchandise display artist Naoko Inagaki.

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