Rowena Luke-King is a fashion and textile designer with qualified teacher status. Trained at Bath College of Education and Saint Martins School of Art, she has worked for design studios in both London and New York and as a free-lance designer for leading retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Next. She has produced her own collections of clothes and hand printed fabrics which were sold in a number of London stores including Fiorucci, Practical Styling and Astrohome. She has worked as a fashion forecaster, a fashion correspondent for the BBC and as a fashion stylist for the film and music industries, creating stage clothes and styling photograph sessions and promotional videos for bands such Kid Creole & the Coconuts and stars such as Clare Grogan of Altered Images. Garments that she created for Adam and the Ant's have been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Rowena has lectured at numerous colleges and universities including the University of Brighton and London College of Fashion. She has worked for the United Nations Development Program, teaching at the National Institute of Fashion Technology in India and is currently involved with Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, writing, developing and teaching several of their short courses including Hand Embroidery, Fashion Textile Design Prediction, Design for Vintage Bags & Framed Purses, Novelty Vintage Bags, Vintage Fashion Dolls and Vintage Fashion Bridalwear.
Whilst continuing with her freelance work as a designer and vintage fabric swatch researcher for the fashion industry, Rowena Luke-King has been offering individual tuition in the bright and friendly atmosphere of her home-studio since 1992.
Pictures of some of her work can been see on Facebook.
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