Career
She was former Fashion Editor and Company-Editor of i-Doctorate Magazine in the "80s and has been a fashion commentator for over 32 years. A broadcaster, writer, director and producer, she has worked with many major networks to produce television shows and documentaries. This included British Broadcasting Corporation"s The Clothes Show which ran for 12-years from 1986-1998.
Caryn has always been interested in the politics of image and self-esteem as well as straight fashion.
Her projects have involved refugees in battle zones, workers in free-trade-zone slums, mental health experts, Member of Parliament"s and Government. Ministers and of course the fashion industry’s innovators.
She has contributed to many national newspapers and magazines. She has four books to her name, including a novel.
Caryn has also worked in education throughout her career, as an external assessor and lecturer for a variety of colleges, including The Royal College of Art, Central Street Martins and the London College of Fashion.
She collected an Honorary Fellowship from The Arts University College at Bournemouth, is a visiting Fellow at London College of Fashion and has an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University. As a fashion activist, she has co-chaired Fashion Targets Breast Cancer since 1994, which has helped spread the important message of "early detection saves lives," and contributed to the build and maintenance Britain"s first ever Breast Cancer Research Centre. She proposed the Centre of Sustainability at London College of Fashion and is one of its ambassadors, promoting the debate around ethical sourcing and supply.
She co-founded the award winning All Walks Beyond the Catwalk (with Debra Bourne and Erin O"Connor) an initiative which promotes diverse beauty ideals in 2009.
All Walks collaborates with emerging designers, established big names in fashion and colleges and universities nationwide to add the concept of emotionally considerate design and diversity to the curriculum. She and Bourne also proposed the All Walks Diversity Network at the Edinburgh College of Art, launched at Graduate Fashion Week in June 2011, attended by Government
Minister Lynne Featherstone. Caryn is regularly called upon to act as a silent partner consultant for a range of commercial companies, as well as debate and deconstruct fashion for a variety of audiences, or host or compere the event.
She has worked with many mainstream retailers including Platinum Guild, Royal Mint, Next, Debenhams and Arcadia.
Given after-dinner speeches, mentoring presentations, chaired panels and facilitated events for brands and organisations as diverse as Coca Cola, Merrill Lynch, Wella, L’Oreal, Government. Minister Jo Swinson’s Press Office, Graduate Fashion Week, National Portrait Gallery, Cambridge University, SHOWstudio and the V&A Museum. Caryn is education ambassador at Clothes Show Live and a regular contributor to i-Doctorate online.
She has two daughters, Mateda and Roseby, and has been married to Bafta-nominated film maker Ian Denyer.