Caryn Franklin MBE

As the former fashion editor and co-editor of i-D Magazine and BBC broadcaster for 15 years on prime-time programmes, Caryn Franklin MBE has explored the politics of image and self-esteem extensively over 37 years of fashion practice in commercial, educational and activist positions.

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As an esteemed writer, broadcaster and director, Caryn was the face of The Clothes Show, which spanned over twelve years, Style Challenge and many others during her broadcasting career.

As a fashion activist, Caryn has co-created a variety of campaigns. Her projects have involved refugees in battle zones, workers in free-trade-zone slums, mental health experts, MP's and government ministers as well as international design names, the fashion industry’s innovators and ordinary women in a personal styling capacity.

She has written for magazines, newspapers and produced 4 books and authored many TV documentaries.

She is a visiting lecturer and holds a variety of honorary fellowships as well as an honorary doctorate.

She has co-created ground breaking campaigns and has been co-chair of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer since 1996 and co-founder and former director of the award-winning diversity initiative: All Walks Beyond the Catwalk 2009 – 2015.

In 2013 Caryn received an MBE and in 2015 she completed an MSc in Applied Psychology to become Professor of Diverse Selfhood at Kingston School of Art.

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