Karen Savage
Profession
Senior Lecturer, BA Fashion Styling and Production
Person Type
Staff
Biography
Karen Savage has an ever-evolving portfolio career centred around fashion, clothes, and style. She has a proven track record of both creative and commercial success in the fashion industry as an entrepreneur, academic employee, and a freelancer.
Karen has a wealth of experience in both industry and academia. In industry, her roles have been a fashion designer, print designer, stylist, trend forecaster, blogger, creative director in print and licencing. She is best known for her critically acclaimed fashion label, SAVAGE in the early 1990’s, garnering extensive media coverage for her slogan t-shirts. She used the language of fashion and clothes to question female representation in popular culture through a feminist lens.
Karen has worked with many clients over the years including Absolut Vodka, BBC3, Directory of Social Change, Exposure PR, Hotel Pelirocco, Mobile 3, Nokia, Ogilvy and Mather, Taiwan Textile Federation, The Fawcett Society, The Observer and Traid.
An early adopter of sustainability in fashion clothes and style throughout her career, Karen is currently reviving her t-shirt and print archive from the 90s. She is also a vintage clothes and accessories collector, stylist, and merchandiser of her retail physical shop space in Palace Antiques in London and a Senior Lecturer on BA Fashion Styling and Production.
Karen holds a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning, has been a visiting fellow at The Hong Kong Design Institute, and is a recent recipient of the UAL Teaching Award.