TELL US ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND
I am Jamaican-Indian and from Wolverhampton, I grew up there with my mum, but moved to London to study fashion. I studied Fashion Communications at Central Saint Martins, but always had an entrepreneurial spirit I guess, always curious, which led me into styling, consultancy, film making and launching platforms Beauty Stack and The Stack World. Whilst studying I opened WAH Nails as a side project, but it really took off, and that was the start. Since then, I have continued styling, writing, consulting and making films. But WAH inspired me to trust that curiosity and I went on to launch BeautyStack and then came The Stack World, a community led media platform which supports female leaders and entrepreneurs.
TALK US THROUGH YOUR CAREER JOURNEY SO FAR
My career began working under stylist Nicola Formichetti and designer Kim Jones, and through them I was introduced to Jo-Ann Furniss, who was my Editor in Chief at Arena Homme Plus. She taught me so much – about commissioning, writing and honing my own taste and style, all while continuing to study. After graduating, I was a consultant at Nike, and made a couple of films with Tyrone Lebon, whilst still styling. All of these encouraged that early curiosity, which led to WAH Nails, investing time into the tech world, to see if I could build technology, which led to Beauty Stack, but the pandemic hit and the stories of these women were what was important and what I cared about, so The Stack world was born.
