LIVING – CORRIERE DELLA SERA
SOPHIE HICKS: MY PRIVATE BRUTALISM
By Paola Menaldo
Photographs by Adrian Gaut
June 2019
PIN-UP INTERVIEWS, VOL. 1
SOPHIE HICKS
Words by Emily King. First published in 2013, reissued November 2025
With her boyishly short hair and smart men’s clothes, Sophie Hicks is widely known for her sharp personal style. She developed her fashion skills during the nine years she worked as a stylist, first as a teenager for Harpers & Queen, then at Vogue, and afterwards for Azzedine Alaïa. it wasn’t until her mid-20s — with a little indirect help from madonna — that she discovered her true calling: architecture. after a degree from London’s Architectural Association, she went on to design office space, exhibitions, private residences, and shops — for Paul Smith and Chloé, among others.
Her Parisian flagship store for Yohji Yamamoto is a miraculous exercise in crafted wood and folded paper. Hicks’s style is subtle, quiet, detail-oriented, and elegant. her spaces are never flashy, but always smart, and often witty. meeting her in her long, lean mews house home-cum-studio in Notting Hill — which she shares with her boyfriend, children, and pets — I found myself impressed by her poise, determination, and sharp intelligence. But the true focus of my envy was her indoor swimming pool.
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Featuring interviews with David Adjaye, Daniel Arsham, Shigeru Ban, Barry Bergdoll, Ben van Berkel, Ricardo Bofill, Santiago Calatrava, Rafael de Cárdenas, David Chipperfield, Claude Dalle, Odile Decq, Delfina Delettrez, Fredrikson Stallard, Simon Fujiwara, Cyprien Gaillard, Martino Gamper, Jeanne Gang, Zaha Hadid, Pierre Hardy, Jacques Herzog, Sophie Hicks, Junya Ishigami, Johnston Marklee, William Katavolos, Francis Kéré, David Kohn, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Niklas Maak, Philippe Malouin, Peter Marino, Jürgen Mayer H., Thom Mayne, Roy McMakin, Richard Meier, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, OFFICE KGDVS, Rick Owens, Anca Petrescu, Boris Rebetez, Charles Renfro, RO/LU, Ole Scheeren, Clémence Seilles, Annabelle Selldorf, Peter Shire, Julius Shulman, Hedi Slimane, Ettore Sottsass, Oscar Tuazon, Rafael Viñoly, Andro Wekua, Robert Wilson, James Wines, and Bethan Laura Wood.
JAPAN VOGUE
ARCHITECTS IN MODE
March, 2002
DETAIL
CENTRAL AND SECLUDED: SOPHIE HICK’S PRIZE-WINNING PRIVATE RESIDENCE
by Edina Obermoser
Photographs by Annabel Elston and Sophie Hicks Architects
January 2020
J’N’C News
DIE GEISTERJÄGERIN
Interview by Svea Jörgens
Portraits by Volker Conradus
December 2012
NR
SOPHIE HICKS DISCUSSES THE FASHION INDUSTRY AND HER CAREER IN ARCHITECTURE.
by Izzy Bilkus. Photographs by Adrian Gaut, Johannes Marburg, James Drew Turner and Annabel Elston.
Winter 2021
RIKA STUDIOS PAPER
EDITION No.9, SUMMER 2024
Photography by Johnnie Shand Kydd
Interview by Emily King
W MAGAZINE
HIP TO BE SQUARE
By Alice Rawsthorn
Photographs by Adrian Gaut
March 2019
ABITARE
THEATRE OF THE SENSES
Words by Luca Trombetta
Photography by Hong Kiwoong, Shin Gyo Hyo Geun
December 2025
RIBA JOURNAL
1A EARL’S COURT SQUARE
By RIBA
May 2019
YAMAMOTO & YOHJI, RIZZOLI
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
Contribution by Sophie Hicks
Photographs by Milo Keller and Johannes Marburg
November 2014