SPACE MAGAZINE
ACNE STUDIOS
Interview by Park Sungjin
Photo by Annabel Elston
January 2016
NOWNESS
IN RESIDENCE: SOPHIE HICKS
Editor Shelley Jones. Film by Nick Ballon. January 2019
A tranquil walk through the minimal home of the architect who has designed boutiques for the likes of Chloé and Yohji Yamamoto.
In 1987, after working as fashion editor at Tatler and Vogue, Sophie Hicks embarked on a career in architecture, going on to design some 100 Chloé boutiques, stores for Nottingham’s own Paul Smith, and—most notably—Yohji Yamamoto’s stunning Paris flagship.
In this new film, the latest of our much-loved In Residence series, fashion’s interior designer guides us around her minimal Kensington home—one that belies its proximity to the beating heart of a major city.
Hicks has described her own style as “cold but warm,” making use of rough finishings and sparse, minimal spaces to provide a place for light—both natural and artificial—to play. There is an openness to her approach, being a reflection of her editorial career working under Grace Coddington. It is, then, no great surprise that the British stylist-turned-architect had a surreal encounter with Federico Fellini in 1986, leading to her appearing in his fictional documentary Intervista.
View film at Nowness.com
MAGAZINES
NUMERO
SOPHIE HICKS, LA SCIENCE DES VOLUMES
By Clara Le Fort
Photo by Johannes Marburg
September 2016
CULTURED MAGAZINE
THE ART OF THE FASHION FLAGSHIP
By John Glendall
Photograph of Acne Studios Seoul by Annabel Elston
April/May 2019
JOONGANG SUNDAY
SOPHIE HICKS
Interview by Hyung Mo Jung
October 2015
DEZEEN
SOPHIE HICKS CONCEALS “CONCRETE MONSTER”
By Alice Morby
Photography by Annabel Elston
September 2015
FAMILY STYLE
BREAKING GROUND
Words by Rachel Summer Small
Photography by Simons Pinckney Finnerty
No. 7, Fall 2025
RIBA LONDON AWARDS 2019
1A EARL’S COURT SQUARE
By RIBA
Photograph by Annabel Elston
May 2019
SHOTENKENCHIKU
OVERSEAS INTERIOR, YOHJI YAMAMOTO PARIS CAMBON
By Shotenkenchiku
Photographs by Takumi Ogihara
May 2009
SPACE MAGAZINE
AT HOME WITH HICKS
Conversation Skye Sherwin
Photos by Brett Lloyd
November 2015
INTERIOR + DESIGN, RUSSIA
1A EARL’S COURT SQUARE
by Danila Varennikov
Photographs by Adrian Gaut, Alasdair McLellan, Annabel Elston & Sophie Hicks Architects
October 2019