S2 E13 Anna Mason, Founder, Anna Mason London

Anna Mason is one of Britain’s leading fashion designers and selected by Walpole to as part of their Brands for Tomorrow. Her distinct, feminine designs (to quote The Times) ‘slyly modest, slyly sexy’ are known to attract the ‘where did you get that from‘ question.

Our guest trained under Karl Lagerfeld and went on to design for Max Mara, Valentino and Amanda Wakeley before setting up her own made-to-order and ready-to-wear fashion label.

With rave reviews from the fashion press, she has been hailed as ‘the best kept secret in London’ by The Vendeur and ‘the quietly chic fashion label made for life’ by The Telegraph.  Stockists include Net-a-Porter and the pre-order straight from the runway US website - Moda Operandi. 

Join Anna and me chatting about how she became a fashion designer, the pauses along the way, her vulnerabilities and how she cleverly built her business up from her kitchen table to where it is today. Her candidness is refreshing, her insights especially on success and failure, utter gems.

My recommendation: The How To Academy
Anna’s Fav Book: In High Fashion, Edward Steichen
Chocolate: Ritter sport Marzipan
Quote: ‘Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening’. Coco Chanel

To explore more of Anna’s work click here