Jasper Conran

Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran OBE (born 12 December 1959) is a British designer.

He is the second son of Sir Terence Conran, a designer, and Shirley Pearce, an author; his parents divorced when he was two.

Conran has released furnishing, fabric and wallpaper collections for Designers Guild,[9] as well as a range of signature fragrances and luggage.

Conran has served several times on the British Fashion Council, and is a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London.

Throughout his career, Conran has pursued his passion for the performing arts — he has designed costumes and sets for fourteen ballet, opera and theatre productions.

Conran collaborated with David Bintley on the Royal Ballet's production of Tombeaux, held at Covent Garden, and a series of productions by the Birmingham Royal Ballet, including The Nutcracker Sweeties, Brahms/Handel Variations, The Shakespeare Suite and Arthur Part I & II.

He also designed the set and costumes for Bintley's The Compleat Consort, produced for the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, Germany.

In 1991, Conran won the Laurence Olivier Award for Costume Design for Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal at the Almeida Theatre in London, UK.

[20] In 2009, he was ranked number 66 in the annual Pink List of 100 influential gay and lesbian people in Britain, published by The Independent on Sunday.