Andrew Fionda

Career: fashion designer; former experience with established Br design houses incl Marks & Spencer and Alexon Internation, fndr ptnr own label Pearce Fionda (with Ren Pearce, qv) 1984-94, co-designer (with Ren Pearce) Pearce II Fionda collection for Designers at Debenhams 1997-; New Generation Designers of the Year (Br Fashion Awards) 1995, Newcomers Award for Export (Br Knitting and Clothing Export Cncl/Fashion Weekly) 1995, World Young Designers Award (Int Apparel Fedn Istanbul) 1996, Glamour Category Award (Br Fashion Awards) 1997; worldwide stockists incl: Liberty, Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges (UK), Saks 5th Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman (USA), Lidia Shopping (Italy), CRC (Thailand), Brown Thomas (Ireland); gp exhbns incl: Design of the Times (RCA) 1996, The Cutting Edge of British Fashion 1947-1997 (V&A) 1997; regular guest fashion critic This Morning (ITV) 2004-