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Victoria Jenkins: accessibility designer

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Everyone has a story. Pain and endless hospital visits led to designer Victoria Jenkins’s eureka entrepreneur moment – creating the adaptive fashion brand, Unhidden. Here she talks about her brand: award-winning universal designs for every body and also her love of Islington. Interview by Nicola Baird. Photos by Kimi Gill…

Clarissa Hulse: textile designer

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Everyone has a story. Textile designer Clarissa Hulse explains how Islington’s plants and trees inspire her best selling lines of bedlinen, cushion covers, bags and scarves, from the studio where they are created, just off Highbury Fields, N5. Interview by Nicola Baird “If I’m filling the world with stuff I want…

Mathy Lisika-Minsende: creative mentor

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Everyone has a story. Multi-lingual extrovert Mathy Lisika-Minsende is a master of confidence boosting storytelling – she uses this and practical skills to help people unhappy in their jobs develop the courage to do something they really want. Nicola Baird finds out more Mathy Lisika-Minsende was living off Holloway Road…
Dominic Haddock: opera producer

Dominic Haddock: opera producer

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. What’s it like running an Islington pub theatre? Meet Dominic Haddock, one of the trio behind OperaUpClose – which puts on affordable opera at the atmospheric King’s Head Theatre on Upper Street and has just set up Islington’s newest theatre above the Hope &…