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I am a fashion producer and researcher from South Wales, currently based between Paris and the UK.
I have over ten years experience working in the luxury fashion industry - both in-house and on a freelance basis - with my work focusing on creative project management and, more recently, fashion photo and film shoot production.
My return to education and discovery of critical fashion studies came in 2018.
Four years after graduating from my BA in Fine Art and four years into my full time fashion career, I felt extremely disillusioned with the industry and my work in it. Having grown up with two social worker parents, purpose and contribution were integral to my conception of work and I was increasingly questioning mine on both counts as a fashion worker.
This questioning led me to enrol on the MA Gender, Media and Culture course at Goldsmiths, University of London - hoping to find a new path that would take me out of fashion...but if anything just leading to further questions and more confusion 🫠
Since graduating in 2020, I continue to struggle with my feelings about fashion and my place within it. This project is an exploration of the ongoing conflicts that many, if not most, of us experience about our working lives. As well as a place to finally get the opportunity to share my encyclopedic knowledge of MTV’s The Hills with the world, and give ‘Lauren will always be known as the girl who didn’t go to Paris’ the analysis that it so deeply and desperately deserves.