[4] After leaving school at 17, Conran worked as an apprentice for couture milliner Stephen Jones before joining the fashion team at the studio of her brother Jasper.
Following this, Conran interior-designed apartments and show flats in the Butler's Wharf development and overhauled the Design Museum Shop's collections, where she also acted as a buyer.
[citation needed] She began to receive private interior design commissions after buying a flat in Bayswater, reuniting the rooms which had been parcelled out as bed-sits, and renovating them.
On returning to the United Kingdom, she renovated a dilapidated farm in Devon, rearing pigs and growing vegetables.
[citation needed] In the food world, Conran created a supper club and then collaborated with her brother Tom on a catering company.
She has written food and entertaining stories for many UK titles including InStyle and Living, and has been a contributing editor to Junior magazine.