Grace Wales Bonner was born in 1990 and is an English fashion designer, whose work “proposes a distinct notion of cultural luxury that infuses European heritage with an Afro-Atlantic spirit”.
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Her designs are characterized by a blend of sportswear and tailoring, as well as her interest in infusing everyday wardrobe essentials with refined elegance. In 2014 she founded the London-based label Wales Bonner, originally specializing in menswear.
Since founding her eponymous brand, Wales Bonner has received numerous awards including Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards (2015), the LVMH Young Designer Prize (2016), Winner of the British Fashion Council/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund (2019), and CFDA International Men’s Designer of the Year (2021), and in June 2022.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fashion. Wales Bonner currently serves as the Head of the Department of Fashion Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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She was born in South London to a white English mother and Jamaican father, and after her parent’s separation was brought up between her mother’s house in Dulwich and her father’s in Stockwell.
In 2022, she collaborated with renowned American artist Kerry James Marshall on a limited-edition T-shirt.
Grace Wales Bonner Parents: Who Are Grace Wales Bonner’s Parents?
The daughter of a white English mother, who works as a business consultant, and a Black father of Jamaican descent who is a lawyer, Wales Bonner grew up in South London. Her parents separated when she was around five she was young, but politics, literature, particularly that of the West Indies, and education were part of the fabric of both her parents’ households.
She and her two sisters grew up primarily in a prosperous, predominantly white section of southeast London,
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