Lucinda Chambers

Living Life In Colour...

Living life in colour, embracing ageing and being unafraid of change. No wonder Lucinda Chambers is both a mentor and muse to women of all generations.

After 35 years working at British Vogue, largely as the title's Fashion Director, Lucinda faced the abrupt end to her Condé Nast career with grace and gusto. Enter a colourful new chapter with Collagerie and Colville - an exciting era of democratic fashion, curating without constraint and mixing high and low with a signature splash of colour, print and whimsical fun.

Known and loved for some of the most iconic fashion shoots of all time and for working with (and often discovering) the photographers, supermodels and celebrities of the day, Lucinda remains unaffected and true to the creative curiosity that is part of her DNA. 

Arriving at British Vogue after art school (and a lot of creative crafting during her London upbringing with her industrious and inspiring mother), Lucinda knew nobody. A chance phone call with the head of HR made way for a role as secretary and a heady rise to one of the most influential voices in fashion globally. But in perhaps her biggest move yet, Lucinda becomes an entrepreneur in the fashion and tech worlds in her 50s.

"Leaving a job you love is never easy" reflects Lucinda. "And yet it has given me the incredible opportunity to start new things. Which can be very frightening, I understand that.  But I never was.  When you have ideas you just want to do them, you put one foot in front of the other and weirdly things happen."

Here we chat with Lucinda about careers, crossroads and change; about her compulsion to create and to collect; how she unwinds, her glorious gardens in London and France, and why she's happier in her early 60s than ever before...