As Whistles’ new inventive director, Markham might be liable for the elevation of the womenswear model’s design course and “wider inventive imaginative and prescient”. She’s going to report back to Whistles product director Camille Sullivan.
Jacqui Markham
Markham started her style profession in 1994 as a designer for womenswear retailers Oasis and Karen Millen.
In 1998, she joined Topshop, the place she labored her manner up from formalwear designer to design director, overseeing all clothes classes.
She was additionally the only real designer for Topshop’s bestselling Kate Moss collections between 2007 and 2010.
Markham joined Asos in 2013 as design director, overseeing the restructuring and growth of the web style retailer’s 36-strong design group, earlier than returning to Topshop two years later as international design director.
Throughout her second, three-year tenure at Topshop, Markham oversaw a 47-strong design group and 20-strong in-house sample room, and was instrumental in delivering Topshop’s aspirational, premium line Distinctive, which showcased its spring/summer season 17 and autumn/winter 17 collections at London Trend Week in September 2016 and February 2017.
In 2019, Markham joined City Outfitters as design director, earlier than going freelance as a design guide profession in 2020.
Whistles’ Sullivan stated Markham’s “intensive expertise on the worldwide excessive road might be instrumental in driving each the model and [Whistles’] product providing ahead in [the] subsequent stage of development”: “We will’t watch for our clients to see Jacqui’s imaginative and prescient for the model roll out throughout our channels within the coming months.”
Markham stated: “I hope to carry a recent spirit to a model that I’ve at all times admired. By channelling the visionary ethos set by [Whistles founder] Lucille Lewin and constructing on the up to date but easy, signature fashion of Whistles, I consider we are able to carry a rejuvenated power to the model, interesting to each our loyal fan base, while attracting new, style-minded people.”
Whistles was based in London in 1976 and purchased by TFG Manufacturers in March 2016. TFG Manufacturers additionally owns style retailers Hobbs and Section Eight.
