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      Lighting Design
      2015
      Illustration
      2021
      Furniture Design
      2002
      Speculative Design
      2022
      Textiles Design
      2019
      Furniture Design
      2007
      Engineering Design
      1995
      Costume Design
      2022
      Environmental Engineering
      2010
      Interaction Design
      2009
      Illustration
      1981
      Graphic Design
      1987
      Costume and Set Design
      2005
      Textiles
      2015
      Graphic Design
      2011
      Graphic Design
      2002
      Architecture
      2017
      Product Design
      1998
      Engineering Design
      2006
      Graphic Design
      2011
      Engineering Design
      2004
      Engineering Design
      2006
      Type Design
      1981
      Graphic Design
      2013
      Interior Design
      2005
      Data Visualisation Design
      2025
      Fashion Design
      2013
      Fashion Design
      2023
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      Lucinda Chambers has worked in the fashion industry for more than three decades. As Fashion Director of British Vogue for 25 years, Lucinda has shaped the face of fashion and inspired the wardrobes of millions of women. She is the co-founder of Collagerie, the revolutionary shopping platform expertly curating fashion, beauty and interiors across all price points. Lucinda is also the co-founder of luxury fashion and homeware brand Colville. Widely hailed as the ‘antithesis of fast fashion’, the collections mix timeless essentials with colourful, textural statement pieces. Lucinda has worked as a creative consultant and stylist across high-street and luxury brands, from Prada and Marni to H&M and Inditex.

      Lucinda Chambers
      In this latest edition of RDInsights, Mike is in conversation with Lucinda Chambers RDI, the British fashion director, designer, and stylist who worked at Vogue magazine for 36 years and is also in demand as a consultant to many major fashion brands. Her creative path in that seemingly glamorous world was a combination of mishaps, luck, hard work, dedication, creative imagination and passion for her subject, which she continues in her new fashion enterprise, Collagerie, curating the best of fashion, interiors, beauty and lifestyle.
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      Credits from left to right
      Image: Patrick Demarchelier
      Image: Jo Metson-Scott for Colville
      Image: Peter Lindebergh for Vogue
      Illustration
      2023
      Architecture
      2006
      Production Design
      2009
      Production Design
      2009
      Architecture
      2010
      Product Design
      2015
      Lighting Design
      2019
      Regenerative Design
      2022
      Interior Design
      2021
      Textile Design
      2006
      Theatre + Film Design
      1997
      Graphic Design
      1994
      Illustration
      2018
      Theatre Design
      2018
      Critical Design
      2021
      Engineering Design
      2005
      Textile Design
      1984
      Designing with Sound
      2012
      Graphic Design
      2001
      Textile Design
      1997
      Graphic Design
      2009
      Illustration
      1985
      Futures Design
      2021
      Architecture
      1988
      Textile Design
      1998
      Fashion Design
      2002
      New Media
      2000
      Cartoonist
      2019
      Engineering Design
      2007
      Landscape Design
      2019
      Multidisciplinary Artist
      2025
      Landscape Design
      2012
      Graphic Design
      2014
      Exhibitions
      1974
      Furniture Design
      1978
      Graphic Design
      2005
      TV Production Design
      1991
      Artificial Intelligence Design
      2021
      Engineering Design
      1993
      Film Production Design
      2024
      General Design
      2004
      Product Design
      2008
      Interior Design
      2009
      Graphic Design
      1997
      Furniture Design
      2004
      Graphic Design
      2005
      Sound Design
      2023
      Fashion Design
      2007
      Theatre Design
      1999
      Fashion Design
      2009
      Multidiscipline Designer
      2025
      Engineering Design
      2005
      Product Design
      2003
      Fashion Design
      1988
      Speculative Design
      2022
      Interior Design
      1991
      Textile Design
      1989
      Millinery
      2009
      Interior Design
      2007
      Graphic Design
      2025
      Textile Design
      2008
      Furniture Design
      1990
      Engineering Design
      2001
      Graphic Design
      1994
      Graphic Design + Caricature
      1999
      Ceramics + Glass
      1995
      Product Design
      2008
      Film + TV Graphics
      1982
      Product Design
      2003
      Design of Art
      2019
      Structural Engineering Design
      2004
      Designing with Light
      2012
      Interior Design
      2005
      Graphic Design
      2004
      Product + Furniture Design
      2019
      Graphic Design
      1987
      Theatre Design
      2004
      Production Design
      2006
      Illustration
      2013
      Furniture Design
      2001
      Urban Design
      2024
      Communication Design
      2017
      Theatre + Film Design
      1996
      General Design
      2006
      Textile Design
      2015
      Furniture Design
      2007
      Animation
      2006
      Engineering Design
      2012
      Architecture
      2005
      Engineering Design
      2006
      Product Design
      2008
      Landscape Design
      2012
      Graphic Design
      2015
      Costume Design
      2013
      Critical Design
      2021
      Environmental Design
      2017
      Textile Design
      2011
      Fashion + Textiles
      1976
      Engineering Design
      1997
      Illustration
      1989
      Graphic Design
      2011
      Illustration
      1989
      Graphic Design
      2006
      Sustainable Design
      2021
      Fashion Design
      1991
      Architecture
      2005
      Fashion Design
      2014
      Landscape Architecture & Garden Design
      2024
      Service Design
      2018
      Engineering Design
      2014
      Product Design
      1986
      New Media Design
      2022
      Interaction Design
      2007
      Jewellery Design
      2010
      Ecological Design
      2021
      Architecture
      2012
      Landscape Architecture
      2009
      Graphic Design
      2021
      Architecture
      2005
      Stone carving and the design of monuments
      2025
      Structural Engineering Design
      1998
      Graphic Design
      2011
      Furniture Design
      2003
      Designing with Light
      2013
      Engineering Design
      2013
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