1. Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran was born on 12 December 1959 and is a British designer.
21 Facts About Jasper Conran
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Jasper Conran has worked on collections of womenswear and for the home, as well as productions for the stage in ballet, opera and theatre.
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Jasper Conran is the second son of Sir Terence Conran, a designer, and Shirley Pearce, an author; his parents divorced when he was two.
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Jasper Conran was educated at Port Regis School and Bryanston School in the 1970s; he studied at the Parsons School of Art and Design in New York, United States.
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In 1978, aged 19, Jasper Conran designed his first womenswear collection under his own name.
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Jasper Conran designed the wedding dress of Princess Margaret's daughter, Lady Sarah Chatto in 1994.
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In 1989 Jasper Conran collaborated with Land Rover Ltd on the interior of the then new Land Rover Discovery.
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In 1996, Jasper Conran launched a womenswear range for the Debenhams chain of department stores in the UK.
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Jasper Conran has subsequently designed women's accessories, lingerie, hosiery, menswear, men's accessories, childrenswear, and homeware for the company.
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Jasper Conran has released furnishing, fabric and wallpaper collections for Designers Guild, as well as a range of signature fragrances and luggage.
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In 2004, Jasper Conran designed and launched a three-range fireplace collection for Chesney's.
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Jasper Conran was appointed creative director of The Conran Shop in 2011, and, in 2012, was appointed as the chairman where he spent three years conceiving and implementing a strategy to reinvigorate and reposition the business.
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In March 2014, Jasper Conran was appointed chairman of Jasper Conran Holdings Ltd, stepping down in 2015.
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In 2016 Jasper Conran opened his first hotel in the medina in Marrakesh, L'Hotel Marrakech.
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Jasper Conran has served several times on the British Fashion Council, and is a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London.
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Jasper Conran designed the set and costumes for Bintley's The Compleat Consort, produced for the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, Germany.
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In 1991, Jasper Conran won the Laurence Olivier Award for Costume Design for Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal at the Almeida Theatre in London, UK.
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Jasper Conran has bought and restored a string of English period and country houses.
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Jasper Conran bought it in 2002 from the photographer Angus McBean.
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Jasper Conran later purchased Ven House in Milborne Port, Somerset.
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In 2017, Jasper Conran sold his apartment in New Wardour Castle in Wiltshire and purchased the manor house at Bettiscombe in Dorset, a house that had previously belonged to his step-mother, Caroline Jasper Conran.