Iain R. Webb

Iain R. Webb is a British writer, curator and academic, appointed Professor of Fashion & Design at Kingston School of Art in 2016, also an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and Bath Spa University.^[1][2][3]

Webb studied fashion design at St Martin’s School of Art (now Central Saint Martins), graduating in 1980. He went on to serve as fashion editor/director of Blitz magazine, the Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, The Times and Elle, while contributing to various other publications. He won the Fashion Journalist of The Year Award two years running in 1995 and 1996.^[3] He has authored several books on fashion and the careers of, for example, Bill Gibb, Marc Jacobs and the British stylist Caroline Baker.

Selected publications

• Blitz: As seen in Blitz: fashioning '80s style. Woodbridge: ACC Editions, 2013.
• Bill Gibb: Fashion and fantasy. London: V & A, 2008.
• Foale and Tuffin: The sixties: a decade in fashion. Woodbridge: ACC Editions, 2009.
• Postcards from the edge of the catwalk. Woodbridge: ACC, 2010.
• Invitation strictly personal: 40 years of fashion show invites. London: Goodman, 2014.
• Rebel Stylist: Caroline Baker, the woman who invented street fashion. ACC Art Books, 2021