Jasper Conran

English fashion designer who has worked on collections of womenswear and for the home, as well as productions for the stage in ballet, opera and theatre.

He is the second son of Sir Terence Conran, a designer, and Shirley Conran, an author. His parents divorced when he was two years of age.

In 1978, aged 19, Conran designed his first womenswear collection under his own name. Conran designed his first menswear collection in 1985. Conran designed the wedding dress of Lady Sarah Chatto (formerly Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones) in 1994. He also designed clothes for Diana, Princess of Wales.

In 1991, Conran won the Laurence Olivier Award for Costume Design for Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal at the Almeida Theatre in London, UK.

Conran is the chairman and chief executive of Jasper Conran Holdings Ltd.

Conran published his first book, Jasper Conran Country in 2010. The 300-page photographic essay was completed during a year of exploration around the English countryside.

In 2016 Conran opened his first hotel in the heart of the Medina in Marrakech, L'Hotel Marrakech.

Conran is openly gay. On 12 December 2015, his 56th birthday, he married Irish artist and performer Oisin Byrne.