Sam McKnight Success Story & Working With Princess Diana & Kate Moss
SheerLuxe Podcast
Mia Luckie
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Success Story…Sam McKnight
Charlotte Collins is joined by author and brand owner Sam McKnight to talk more about his incredible life and career. Sam’s hair styling career has spanned four decades, encompassing everything from catwalk to editorial and advertising campaigns for fashion houses like Chanel, Fendi, Burberry, and Tom Ford. As well as collaborating with some of the world’s most prominent photographers – think Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Testino and Nick Knight – he was also a long-time stylist for the late Princess Diana, not to mention the creative mastermind behind her iconic look on the now-famous 1990 British Vogue cover…
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Shillach podcast, your guide to a more stylish life. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to today's Shillach success story. It's with me Charlotte Collins. |
| 0:09.7 | This week I'm joined by Sam McKnight. Sam, you've got you've got some letters after your name that aren't in my intro. |
| 0:15.0 | What are you officially? I do. I'm officially an MBE. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm joined by Sam McKnight. |
| 0:22.0 | NBE. Sam's hairst hairsty career has spanned four decades, encompassing everything from catwalk to editorial |
| 0:28.0 | and advertising campaigns with fashion houses like Chanel, Vendy, Burberry and Tom Ford, as well as collaborating with some of the world's |
| 0:34.4 | most prominent photographers like Patrick de Martelier, Mario Testino and Nick Knight. |
| 0:39.5 | He was also a long-time stylist for the late Princess Diana, not to mention the creative mastermind behind her iconic short slipped back hairstyle, featured on the 1990 cover shoot for British Vogue. |
| 0:50.0 | Today Sam is an author, brand owner and passionate gardener alongside his still full-time styling work and he joins me to talk about his incredible life and career. |
| 0:59.0 | Sam is... |
| 1:00.0 | That's a lot to live up to that one. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean it's all I just said to you it's always quite painful to |
| 1:04.6 | read it's painful to listen to so apologies but that's quite a CV. It's alright and I'm |
| 1:11.0 | still going I'm still going We're not done yet. |
| 1:13.2 | Plugging away. |
| 1:14.2 | We're not done yet. |
| 1:15.2 | Can you start a bit at the beginning? |
| 1:17.2 | How did you, why hairdressing? How did you get into it? |
| 1:20.6 | I'm going to try and cut this very long story short which I'm not very good at |
| 1:25.2 | as you may have to stop me. I'm from a very working class coal mining village in Scotland. |
| 1:32.4 | I was brought up in a council |
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