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. 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, styling photograph sessions and promotional videos and creating stage clothes 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 and teaching several of their short courses including Hand Embroidery, Textiles & Colour for Fashion, Design for Vintage Bags & Purses, Design & Make Framed Bags & Purses and Design for Fabric Jewellery.
Whilst continuing with her freelance work as a fashion and textile 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 Brighton & Hove studio since 1992.