Claire Malcolm

• Name — Claire Malcolm • Birth Name — Claire Louise Malcolm • Born — 27 July 1982 • Birthplace — Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England • Education — Staplehurst School • Label Name — Hardy Amies • Awards — Best Menswear Award, BFA • Alma Mater — Middlesex University

In 2006, Malcolm began working for English designer Kim Jones. Malcolm helped produce four collections for his main line, Kim by Kim Jones. This collection was shown in New York City in February 2007, during the Men's Collections show. Malcolm has also assisted and collaborated with Nicola Formichetti, Andre Walker, i-D Magazine, V Man, 10 Men and Arena Homme. She has also worked with Savile Row tailors Norton & Sons.

Between 2008 and 2009, Malcolm helped develop the fashion line, "Pastelle" for Kanye West.

In 2009, Malcolm moved permanently to Savile Row, working for Patrick Grant of Norton & Sons as the designer for his E.Tautz label, a forgotten military brand from which Grant wanted to develop a ready-to-wear branch of his tailoring house. Between 2009 and 2010, Malcolm designed both the SS10 and AW10 collections, subsequently winning E.Tautz the award for "Best Menswear" at the British Fashion Awards 2010.

In 2010, Malcolm was offered the position of Designer at the British fashion brand, Hardy Amies on Savile Row, presenting her first Salon show at London Fashion Week AW11. Malcolm drew on the period of Hardy Amies' life when he was a prominent figure on the European society circuit in the 1930s: The label is now firmly back on the fashion map with a feel of Tom Ford about it, but with an English twist. These are leisure clothes in luxury fabrics such as the structured and unstructured blazers in Prince of Wales and windowpane check and midnight blue tuxedos with silk crêpe-de-chine shirts.