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Katie Grand (born April 1971) is a British stylist, creative director and fashion journalist. She founded the fashion magazine ''LOVE'' in 2009, followed by fashion bible and creative agency ''Perfect'' in 2020.


Early life and education

Katie Grand was born in
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, England, April 1971 and grew up in
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,
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. She discovered fashion aged 12, saying:
I was really nerdy. And then, kind of overnight, I can clearly remember thinking, "I just want to be cool." Around that time, my dad's girlfriend moved up from London and I thought she was terribly chic. She always used to wear Warehouse, which had just opened and was really good, because Jeff Banks was still in charge. So there are photos of me aged twelve wearing waist-high tight red jeans with a puffed-sleeved blue sweater and awful hair, and then aged thirteen in an ankle-length black gathered skirt, white shirt tucked in, braces, a black tie, black lace tights, navy blue
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s and a black beret with a
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. So it was quite quick! And I really got into going to London and going to the Great Gear Market and all that kind of thing.
At secondary school, she stated her strongest subjects were maths, history and English. On deciding her career, she said, "around fifteen I decided that I wanted to do something in art or fashion", so she began taking night classes at the local college in sculpture, life drawing, jewelry making and pottery to improve her design skills. After completing sixth form, Grand began a foundation course at Birmingham's
Bournville College of Art The School of Art, Bournville (formerly Bournville College of Art and Bournville Centre for Visual Arts but better known as Bournville School of Art) was an art school in Birmingham, England. It was located at Ruskin Hall on Linden Road in the ar ...
, where she was named Student of the Year, achieving 96%. Grand then moved on to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where she found it hard to settle on a single subject—"I tried design, marketing, journalism, knitwear... and ended up doing print, which I still find weird."


Career

Named by British newspaper ''
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'' as "one of the most powerful stylists in the world", Grand began fashion styling while still at St. Martins, directing and styling fashion shoots for newly launched magazine, '' Dazed & Confused'' in the 1990s. She was later bought by style magazine ''
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'' as Fashion Director. Soon after this, Grand was made Editor-in-Chief of ''
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'', a bi-annual fashion magazine. This position brought Grand many friendships, including with celebrities
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and Agyness Deyn, and designers Stella McCartney, Luella Bartley,
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and
Giles Deacon Giles Deacon (born 1969) is a British fashion designer, Creative Director and Founder of Giles Deacon group, a fashion enterprise. Deacon joined the Paris Fashion Week in 2016. Deacon has been known to challenge the traditional ideas of womenswe ...
. She infamously convinced actress Elizabeth Hurley to pose nude on the cover of ''POP'', just six weeks after giving birth. Grand is the former editor of ''
LOVE Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of ...
'', a bi-annual fashion magazine she launched herself in 2009. She left the publication in 2020. Grand styles many fashion photo shoots and shows including Giles and Unique at Topshop. She has also worked on fashion shows for
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and
Prada Prada S.p.A. (, ; ) is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1913 in Milan by Mario Prada. It specializes in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, and other fashion accessories. Prada licenses its name and branding t ...
. As editor of ''LOVE'', she was the fashion journalist chosen to select 2014's Dress of the Year for the
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. Since leaving LOVE, Grand has launched her own successful independent magazine and creative agency “Perfect Magazine”.


Personal life

Grand lives in
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, North London with her husband,
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bassist, Steve Mackey.


References

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