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arianwyn Last 15 Minutes Of Fame on 12/02/2008 selected by Franca Sozzani (24.05.07) selected by Cameron Silver (25.06.07)

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me,

Male	33

Location	London, UNITED KINGDOM

Profession	Fashion Journalist & Consultant

School	London Institute & Syracuse University

Status	Taken

Hometown	Thousand Islands

Website	www.arianwyn.net

myself,


style	Polished wash-out look. Generous on the schrapnel

favourite fashion moment	Back to square one when you've trashed the most tantalizing piece from your wardrobe... hateful but highly cathartic

favorite designers / brands	Chalayan but I don't have favourites

least favorite designers / brands	Too many to list...

music	Depeche Mode

films	My Beautiful Launderette

literature	Margaret Atwood

art	Constantin Brancusi

sports	Nightclubbing

travels	Excessively

other interests	Tedious genealogy

often seen in	Savage afterparties

never caught dead in	Boring fashion parties

blurb

Arianwyn Rhobbet Siârl Young (byline: " ROBB YOUNG")

Robb Young is a fashion journalist and consultant for international fashion events & commercial distributors.

His writing appears in The Financial Times, its ‘The Business of Fashion’ supplement, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times style magazine “T”, Vogue Pelle & Vogue Gioiello (Vogue Italia’s accessory editions), Vogue.co.uk, the Independent, the Guardian newspapers and more. Between 2000 and 2001, he was based in Tokyo as fashion director for the culture magazine Composite and prior to that he was fashion features editor for Arude, a cult style magazine in New York from 1999-2000.

As a consultant for Diptrics in Japan, he recruits international designer collections for distribution, negotiates exclusive contracts and oversees branding strategies in that market since 2000. In 2002, Robb was appointed by the Swiss Textiles Federation to rebrand and reposition their annual €100,000 Swiss Textiles Award as the ultimate authority on upcoming international designer talent. By implementing a nomination and jury system of the fashion industry’s most esteemed professionals, the award has gained outstanding recognition in industry circles. He continues to consult for both companies today.

Events that he has consulted for in the past include “The Allure of Pearls” conference at the Abu Dhabi International Pearl Festival (United Arab Emirates, 2006), Noovo International Festival of Fashion & Photography (Spain, 2007), Tokyo Street Pop (New York, 1998), and Takarajima-sha World Designers (Tokyo, 1998 & 1999),.

Robb is regularly invited as critic, media delegate, jury member or lecturer to many fashion expos and events around the world. Highlights have included lecturing at a symposium at New York’s venerated Japan Society in 2001 as the fashion segment speaker for a multi-disciplinary design overview of ‘Tokyo Style’; a lecture given on working in the fashion industry at the Tate Britain through the ‘Tate Forum’ initiative for inner-city youth in 2003; being a jury member for the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana’s Mittelmoda fashion award in 2004 & 2005; a lecture for IMG on fashion journalism at the Lakme Media Forum in Mumbai, India in 2006; and having been invited to collaborate with Suzy Menkes’ International Herald Tribune luxury conference as a content contributor to the Moscow edition’s on-site reports in 2007 after attending as delegate to previous editions in Istanbul and Dubai.

Robb has been quoted as a fashion industry source in various media including Women’s Wear Daily, Business Standard, Le Temps, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japan Times, the New York Times and others.

Born Arianwyn Rhobbet Siârl Young in 1975 in the Thousand Islands border region between Canada & the U.S, Robb pursued international political economy at Syracuse University, receiving a Bachelor’s degree two years ahead of schedule with ‘summa cum laude’ top honours and then completed an intensive course at the London College of Fashion in England. Based happily in London, he travels extensively around the globe in search of compelling fashion news, products and talent.

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