All Advisory Boards

Adam was born to Iraqi parents and raised in Australia. He started his career as an intern at British GQ and in 2018, he was appointed as the first Editor-in-Chief of GQ Middle East, launching the Condé Nast title in the region. In 2020, Adam was promoted to GQ Deputy Global Editorial Director supporting GQ’s 21 editions around the world. His writing and photography has appeared in the New York Times, and through GQ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire, CNN and Rolling Stone.

Bryan Yambao started his illustrious career when he founded his blog bryanboy.com in 2004. He has become a regular attendee of fashion weeks all around the world and remains a front-row fixture in key capitals such as New York, London, Milan, and Paris. His previous partnerships include Gucci, Dior, Loewe, Prada, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, and Ferragamo. In 2020, Bryan started his TikTok channel and has since gained over 3 million followers on the platform. He is a creative director, consultant, and is the Director of Digital Strategy & Creative Partnerships at The Perfect Magazine.

Carmen Busquets is a Venezuelan entrepreneur, strategic investor and philanthropist, whose career in the luxury fashion industry spans over three decades. A pioneering member of the fashion-tech space, Carmen champions its potential to advance sustainable development, turning the luxury fashion industry into one that balances profit with purpose. carmenbusquets.com is her current investment and philanthropic vehicle, a natural continuation of a career that has been forged by a commitment to experiment, disrupt and challenge existing ideas. From the avant-garde luxury fashion boutique Cabus in Caracas, to her launch of CoutureLab a boutique, e-commerce and content platform with a focus on selling one-off handcrafted pieces and promoting fashion-transcending trends, Carmen has always chosen to uplift creative companies and founders that value artisan craftsmanship and cultural heritage as much as innovative technologies. Having practiced the mind and body disciplines of mindfulness and meditation from an early age, Carmen advocates for the benefits of balancing material life with spiritual well being, a set of practices she believes to be inherently linked to her business success. In addition to her investments in the luxury fashion, lifestyle and technology sectors, Carmen leverages her entrepreneurial expertise to help non-profit organizations engaged in the conservation of the earth’s natural resources, in sustainable economic development, and in providing education and human rights for all.

New York based stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson brings a new attitude to styling. Gabriella’s approach is largely narrative and focused on diversifying representation in the high fashion landscape. She creates work that is energetic and opulent, communicating the vast possibility of styling with disparate colors, materials, silhouettes and textures to tell a common story.

Pulling from his Dutch-Caribbean roots, Asha has a bold yet refined take on fashion storytelling. The stories he creates are rife with a vibrant and eclectic use of color, structural silhouettes and a mix of textures and movement. Asha’s first foray into fashion was at a concept store in Amsterdam which allowed him to explore fashion through the lens of both established and up and coming designers. After moving to Paris, Asha began collaborating with a number of photographers, brands and magazines on their editorials, brand imagery, product development and consultation, seasonal fashion shows and more. In 2021, Asha was named fashion editor at Dazed Magazine. Later that year he held his first sculpture exhibition, “Future Shock” in conjunction with the ERE foundation. It was housed at Dover Street Market’s 3537 space. Collaborators - Carlijn Jacobs, Paolo Roversi, Paul Kooiker, Tim Elkaim, Rafael Pavarotti, Osma Harvilahti, Viviane Sassen Magazines - DAZED, Vogue Italia, M Le Monde, French Vogue, American Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue Designers and brands - Louis Vuitton, Dior, Off White, Botter, Jacquemus, Alberta Ferretti, Pucci, Moncler, Calvin Klein, Zara and more.

Mary Alice grew up on her family's horse-breeding farm in Pennsylvania. She was a distinguished dressage rider and became selected for the U.S. Junior Olympic Equestrian Team. Visits from an eccentric grandmother sparked her curiosity in the transformative power of fashion. A passion for psychology led to an education in political science. She later discovered her vocation as a 'maker' and enrolled in art school in Colorado. Mary Alice's affinity for craftsmanship and structural forms led to shoemaking, at London College of Fashion's Cordwainer's course. Mary Alice's psychology background remains an endless source of inspiration, ensuring that her designs explore more profound concepts than fashion themes alone.

Olivier Theyskens was born in 1977 of a Belgian father and a French mother. As a child, gifted for drawing and having a sense for detail, his interest for couture appeared: aged 7 he declared that he wanted to “become a couturier”. In October 1994 at the age of 17 he entered the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre to study fashion design in Brussels. He left the school in 1997 to start his own brand. The same year Theyskens presented his first collection of feminine, high fashion ready-to-wear in Belgium. He then decided to show his following collection in Paris during fashion week and rapidly found international coverage. VogueRunway characterized his work at this time as consisting of “strong, dark collections that electrified fashion in the late nineties.” In 2002 Theyskens moved to Paris when he was appointed Artistic Director of Rochas, a position he held for four years. For his work at Rochas he was awarded the Star Award from Fashion Group International in 2005 and the title of Best International Designer by the CFDA in 2006. That same year Theyskens took over the position of Artistic Director at Nina Ricci where he infused the house with what WWD described as “his strong suit – stunning evening dresses that are soft and fluid.” Theyskens’ unique aesthetic was captured in a book project, ‘The Other Side of the Picture’ (Assouline). Published in 2009, the book is an anthology of images that offer an intimate insight into Theyskens’ work throughout the years. In 2010, after moving to New York, Theyskens and Theory joined their complementary strengths and visionary approaches to contemporary fashion to create Theyskens’ Theory. In November of that year, Theyskens was appointed Artistic Director of the global Theory brand where he stayed until 2014. Having always the ambition to pursue the development of his own House, Theyskens decides to return to Paris to re-launch his eponymous label in 2016. Olivier Theyskens is one of the youngest designers to be celebrated by two retrospectives. In October 2017, the prestigious MOMU Fashion Museum in Antwerp unveiled a six-month exhibition of Olivier Theyskens’ work covering 20 years of career, with the publication of a monograph entitled ‘She Walks in Beauty’ (Rizzoli). In June 2019, the Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais , opened ‘In Praesentia’, an exhibition focused on Olivier Theyskens’ singular approach to fashion accompanied with the release of a comprehensive catalogue (Lienart). In February 2020, Theyskens was named Artistic Director of Azzaro, overseeing all the lines of the house, a position he holds in parallel to developing his namesake brand. Throughout his career Olivier Theyskens also worked in the art field, creating costumes for the Chicago based rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, for the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels and for the New York City Ballet, as well as creating dresses for major celebrities and prominent socialites.

Casting director Piergiorgio Del Moro grew up in a small beachside village just outsideof Rome. Del Moro had been collecting fashion books since he was a teenager, yet his formal education initially pointed him toward a career in international law. After completing his studies, he received an opportunity to work in Asia as a production assistant and left the field of law behind. His production work in China and Japan opened his eyes to the world of casting, and in 2010 Del Moro moved to New York to establish himself as a casting agent. Since then, Del Moro has cast the runways of iconic fashion houses that include Dries Van Noten, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton Men, Max Mara, Moncler, Moschino, Ralph Lauren, Saint Laurent, Salvatore Ferragamo, Simone Rocha, Tom Ford, Versace and Victoria Beckham. Del Moro also casts talents for countless advertising clients including H&M, Tiffany and Co., Tods, Michael Kors and Adidas. Notably, he has cast the iconic Pirelli calendar since 2017 with prolific photographers Peter Lindbergh, Tim Walker, Albert Watson and Paolo Roversi with casts including: Charlotte Rampling, Emma Watson, Jessica Chastain, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Yara Shahidi, Zhang Ziyi, RuPaul, Sean "P Diddy" Combs, and Misty Copeland just to name a few. He has collaborated with musicians Rihanna, Madonna, Lana Del Rey, and actors such as Julianne Moore, Brooke Shields, Whoopi Goldberg and iconic models Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell for various fashion brands such as Acne Studios, Lacoste, Fenty, and Saint Laurent. Del Moro continues to support both emerging and established talents in their editorial pursuits by regularly collaborating with magazines such as WSJ, M Le Monde, Vogue Japan, Self Service and D Repubblica.

Pierre A. M’PELE otherwise known as Pam Boy is a fashion journalist, critic, and consultant. He graduated from CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS in London and made a name for himself writing fashion show reviews and championing young talents. The former Senior Editor of LOVE magazine and founder of the aperiodic publication SCRNSHT has joined Katie Grand’s THE PERFECT MAGAZINE where he served as Associate Editor until October 2021. M’PELE joined Conde Nast in November 2021 as Head of Editorial Content for GQ FRANCE.

Tiffany Godoy is a journalist, editor, publisher, consultant, and podcast creator that works at the intersection of fashion, art, and technology. Recognized as a global expert on streetwear and culture, she is the author of Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion--Tokyo (Chronicle, 2008); Japanese Goth (Rizzoli, 2009); as well as a history of contemporary Japanese fashion, forthcoming from Thames & Hudson in 2024. Of Argentine-American descent, Godoy grew up in Los Angeles and has split her time between Paris and Tokyo for the last few years. It was in Tokyo, in 1997, that she first began her career by working as a fashion editor for Composite Magazine and Studio Voice, widely considered the most progressive Japanese publications at the time. Godoy later went on to produce the show, “Tiffany’s Tokyo TV,” which aired on Japan's national network NHK, with the support of Tokyo Fashion Express. As a journalist, Godoy has written for countless publications, including style.com, Vogue runway. CNN Style, Highsnobiety, and the Yomiuri newspaper. She has also contributed video work and podcast specials for Chanel and Joyce, among others. Her own podcast, The Anthropology, was released on Hypebeast Radio. In 2010, Godoy cofounded the multimedia magazine and creative studio, The Reality Show, which launched as an Instagramazine in 2018 The project led to global video campaigns and content initiatives for Cartier, Nike, Shiseido, Art Basel, and the Federation de la Couture. Throughout her career, Godoy has appeared as a speaker at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Japan Society, and delivered lectures at Parson’s Paris and Studio Bercot. Part of the Director’s Circle of the International Library of Fashion Research, Godoy also occupies an advisory position on the blockchain infrastructure Lukso and is the co-founder of gaming culture agency Neo Two Zero. Most recently, Godoy served as a narrative consultant for the exhibition “Style in Revolt,” which features the history of streetwear and culture at SKP, in Beijing November 2021- March 2022. In January 2022 she became head of editorial content for Vogue Japan.

Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald are a Los Angeles-based styling duo. They joined forces in 2013 after enjoying separate careers in the fashion industry, with Wayman at Conde Nast publications and Micah at Marc Jacobs and Alice + Olivia. Known for unpredictable details and a shared passion for highlighting client’s personalities on the red carpet, Wayman and Micah have established themselves among the industry’s top tastemakers. Wayman and Micah’s celebrity clients include Tessa Thompson, Regina King, Jodie Turner-Smith, Colman Domingo, and Tiffany Haddish. Their work has been featured on the covers of publications including International Vogue’s, Essence, InStyle, Rolling Stone and Wonderland. They have also collaborated on campaigns for brands including Cadillac, Vaseline, Absolut, Macy’s, Wells Fargo, Champion, Lacoste, and John Varvatos. In 2020, Wayman and Micah were named among the Top 10 “Stylists of the Decade” by The Hollywood Reporter. In 2022, they were named “Stylist of the Year” at the Hollywood Beauty Awards.