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Fashion and style guru
Caryn Franklin has worked in fashion for 29 years as a writer, presenter, producer and director. Formally a fashion editor and later co-editor of i-D magazine for 6 years, she is best known for presenting the BBC’s much loved Clothes Show for 12 years and BBC’s Style Challenge for 3 years. She has regularly appeared on GMTV, LK Today and This Morning and hosted many other shows: Well Woman and Agony - Granada, The Frock and Roll Years - Carlton, Planet Fashion - Granada, Style Bible - Border TV and Style Academy - Discovery Home. An accomplished compere for live events, she hosts Clothes Show Live at Birmingham, the National Wedding Show, Graduate Fashion Week and many other events, recently adding after dinner speaking to her list.
Caryn has produced and presented four documentaries on Vivienne Westwood, Philip Treacy, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer and Matthew Williamson with the makers of BAFTA for ITV as well as another on Agnes B for October Films and having interviewed everyone from Giorgio Armani to Yves Saint Laurent, as well as having strong opinions about women and image, Caryn is also regularly asked to 'guest' as a recognised authority on a variety of other programmes like Trevor Macdonald, The Wright Stuff, I love the Eighties, Nineties, Lunchtime News, 6 O’clock News.
She has written for a variety of magazines including i-D, Time Out, Marie Claire, Sunday Times, Independent, Woman's Own, Health Plus, Eve, Elle, Cosmopolitan and produced four books: Fashion UK (Conran Octopus), The Breast Health Handbook (a best seller), Franklin on Fashion and Woman in the Mirror (her first novel) were all published by Harper Collins.
She lectures and has been an external assessor at colleges like Royal College of Art, Central St Martins and London College of Fashion throughout her career and recently collected an Honorary Doctorate from the Arts University College Bournemouth. Caryn has co-chaired the award winning Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign with Amanda Wakeley, for 15 years, raising money to help build and maintain Bristain's first ever Breast Cancer Research Centre.
Caryn recently co founded the award winning All Walks Beyond the Catwalk with Erin O'Connor and Debra Bourne to promote a wider spectrum of beauty in fashion imagery. This has resulted in Lynne Featherstone, Government Minister for Equalities inviting her to consult on the Lib Dem Body Confidence Campaign. Caryn has also instigated changes to the degree curriculum for students of fashion through her work at All Walks. She is firmly embedded in eduction as an Ambassador of the Centre of Sustainability at LCF.
Her busniness, Brilliant Productions, run with renowned fashion producer Jane Galpin, has worked with many high street brands including Debenhams, Evans, Next, M&S, Lloyds TSB, Bhs, Evans, Simply Be and Royal Mint. Their live events makeover brand and website, How to Look Good has been running for 10 years, collaborating with clienbts like National Wedding Show for many years.
Take a look at Caryn's award winning www.allwalks.org
Caryn's fashion and advice website www.howtolookgood.com
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