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British illustrator and internet personality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angelica Margherita Edwina Hicks (born 16 September 1992) is a British fashion illustrator and internet personality. In 2017, she released the fashion illustration book Tongue in Chic. As the great-granddaughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a relative of the British royal family and is included in the line of succession to the British throne.
Angelica Hicks | |
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Born | September 16, 1992 |
Occupation(s) | illustrator TikToker |
Parent(s) | Ashley Hicks Marina Allegra Tondato |
Relatives | Mountbatten family |
TikTok information | |
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Followers | 599.6K |
Likes | 30.5M |
Last updated: 17 September 2024 | |
Website | angelicahicks.com |
Hicks was born on 16 September 1992 to Marina Allegra Federica Silvia Tondato, an Italian designer, and Ashley Louis David Hicks, a British artist and interior designer.[1][2] Her parents divorced in 2009.[3] Her mother later married the Italian nobleman and sailor Roberto Mottola di Amato and her father later married the American fashion editor Kata Sharkey de Solis.[4]
Hicks' paternal grandparents were the English interior decorator and designer David Nightingale Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten, who served as a bridesmaid and as a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth II.[3] Through her grandmother, Hicks is a relative of the Mountbatten family, itself a branch of the German princely Battenberg family, and a relative of the British royal family.[5] She is included in the line of succession to the British throne. Hicks' great-grandparents, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and The Honourable Edwina Ashley, served as the Viceroy and Vicereine of India.[3] She is a great-great-granddaughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg (later the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven) and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Hicks grew up in Chelsea, London and was educated at a boarding school.[1][6] She studied art history in London.[7]
Hicks works as a visual artist and fashion illustrator.[8][9] She partnered with the Italian luxury fashion house Gucci in 2017 to create a line of eleven t-shirts.[10][11] For the occasion, she unveiled two murals, one in New York City and another in Milan, and created a Snapchat filter to promote the collection.[10] In March 2017, she released a fashion illustration book titled Tongue in Chic through Laurence King Publishing.[5]
Hicks also made commissioned pieces for the American fashion designer Tory Burch and illustrated for the magazines Elle and Porter.[11][12]
In 2021, Hicks launched a TikTok channel where she parodies haute couture outfits from red carpet events and fashion shows, recreating them out of duct tape, trash bags, metallic wrappers, foil, candy, and other materials.[13][14][15] Her recreations included a Louis Vuitton tank dress worn by Emma Corrin on the cover of Vogue, which she made out of multigrain crackers, a Maison Schiaparelli couture cape that she made out of a white mattress cover, and Cagole boots by Balenciaga that she made out of duct tape.[14] Her channel went viral in March 2022, after she made a video recreating a Schiaparelli dress worn by Maggie Gyllenhaal at the 94th Academy Awards.[14][16] By July 2022, Hicks amassed over 48,000 followers and her videos collectively received over 4 million likes.[14] Her videos led to Hicks collaborating with Valentino and Vogue Italia.[16][17] By September 2022, Hicks had over 86,000 followers on TikTok.[18]
Hicks resides in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, New York.[16][19]
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