Sophie Hicks is a British architect and former fashion editor.
Early career in fashion Hicks started work at the age of 17, as a guest fashion editor for the fashion magazine Harpers & Queen’s first teenage issue.Ayers, Andrew. Editor (2013). PIN-UP Interviews. PowerHouse Books. . She remained in fashion for a little over 10 years.
For most of this period, she worked for fashion magazines.Donatien Grau, “An Interview with Sophie Hicks, Fashion's Architect”, AnOther Magazine. Retrieved 23 June 2015. She became a fashion editor for British VogueFashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. Bruzzi, Stella (2013). Routledge . and TatlerDraper, Jessica. Style and Power: Sophie HicksOrlando.Draper, Jessica. 2013. The space between a uniform and a utopia: an exploration of how Sophie Hicks’s style wields power. Courtauld Institute, Documenting Fashion: History Of Dress MA Dissertations and worked with photographers Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Arthur Elgort, Bruce Weber and David Bailey. Early in her career, she undertook a lifeswap with the American journalist and biographer, Bob Colacello, then editor of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine.
Hicks appeared in the June 1984 cover of i-D Magazine."Asked and Answered : Terry Jones. T Magazine,” New York Times. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2015 She was photographed by David Bailey. i-D staff included this cover in their list for the top 35 covers of the history of the magazine."i35 top i-D covers of all time", i-D Magazine. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
In 1986, Hicks left the magazine world to work, for two years, with the fashion designer, Azzedine Alaia, styling photographic shoots to record his oeuvre for the Alaia publication, AA.
In the same year, she also had a part in a film directed by Federico Fellini: Intervista.Stephen Heyman, Sophie Hicks | Chloé’s Architect. New York Times Magazine, June 22, 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
Career in architecture In 1988, at the age of 28, Hicks returned to education, studying to become an architect at the Architectural Association in London. She qualified as a chartered architect in 1994."UK Architects Register website", The Architects Registration Board (ARB). Retrieved 7 August 2015
Hicks set up her architectural practice while still a student. Her architectural career spans private residences, offices, fashion stores and art exhibitions (including, in 1997, SENSATION: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection).
In 1998, Hicks designed Paul Smith's first flagship store, Westbourne House in LondonFashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. Bruzzi, Stella (2013). Routledge. followed by the Milan flagship store at Palazzo Gallarati Scotti.Negozi. Micheli, Simone. Federico Motta Editore, 2004. At the end of 2002, Chloé at the time under the creative direction of Phoebe Philo, asked Hicks to create a concept for their stores.Chloé comes to London, Vogue magazine. 3 December 2002. Retrieved 23 July 2015London Architecture & Design. and guides by Martin Nicholas Kunz, teNeues, 2004. . In 2008, Hicks designed Yohji Yamamoto's Paris flagship store. In 2014, the architect contributed a text for the publication Yamamoto & Yohji, published by Rizzoli.Yamamoto & Yohji. Rizzoli, 2014. .
Sophie Hicks Architects' clients include Yohji Yamamoto, Paul Smith, Chloé, Acne Studios and The Royal Academy of Arts.
Hicks has participated in debate panels and talks at the Barbican Center, the Design Museum in occasion of Paul Smith's 2014 touring exhibition,Bas Van Lier I don't understand women. What design can do. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2019 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the panel discussion "Culture Shop: The Art of Branding", and the Victoria and Albert Museum.Thomas, Abraham History of Architecture, Global 1900-Present. V&A Research Report 2011 In 2015, Hicks together with Alice Rawsthorn gave the inaugural AA XX 100 lecture at the Architectural Association.
From 1997 to 1999, Hicks was Vice President of the Architectural Association Council.
Further reading Architect Sophie Hicks is Applying Her Minimalist Style to Her Own Projects - N. Beauman, Wall Street Journal
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