Fashion career profile
Clare Waight Keller
Clare Waight Keller is a British fashion designer and Creative Director of UNIQLO. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Fashion Knitwear in 1993 and worked across major fashion houses before leading Chloé’s collections from 2011 to 2017. She then became Artistic Director of Givenchy, a role she held from 2017 to 2020. Her work at Givenchy included both ready-to-wear and haute couture, and she designed the wedding dress worn by Meghan Markle in 2018. Waight Keller began designing UNIQLO:C womenswear in 2023, then was appointed Creative Director of the UNIQLO mainline from Fall/Winter 2024, with a remit including menswear. These are related but distinct appointments: the first concerns a named womenswear project, while the second covers the wider mainline. The profile preserves that scope difference and connects her education, house leadership and current work in one sourced career record.
- Role
- Creative Director, UNIQLO; Designer, UNIQLO:C womenswear
- Nationality
- British
- Age
- 56
- Career appointments
- 4
- Fashion houses
- 3
- Active roles
- 2
- UNIQLO : C Unveils FW26 "Precision of Softness" Collection by Clare Waight KellerHypebeast Fashion · 2026-09-15
- British designer Clare Waight Keller joins BFC boardLuxury Daily · 2026-02-23
- Clare Waight Keller joins BFC executive boardFashionNetwork · 2026-02-18
- Education: MA Fashion Knitwear, Royal College of Art (1993)The RCA’s annual report identifies her postgraduate qualification. · Royal College of Art
- Chloé: Creative Director, 2011–2017The house’s official history dates her arrival to 2011. · Chloé
- Givenchy: Artistic Director, 2017–2020She succeeded Riccardo Tisci and became the house’s first woman in the role. · Vogue Italia
- UNIQLO:C: Designer from 2023The project is a distinct womenswear remit that preceded her mainline appointment. · Fast Retailing
- UNIQLO mainline: Creative Director from Fall/Winter 2024The remit includes the mainline collections, including menswear. · Fast Retailing
- 1993 — Graduates from the Royal College of ArtShe completes an MA in Fashion Knitwear.
- 2011 — Joins Chloé as Creative DirectorChloé’s official house history dates her arrival to 2011.
- 2017 — Becomes Artistic Director of GivenchyShe leads the house until 2020.
- 2023 — Begins designing UNIQLO:C womenswearThe project precedes her mainline appointment.
- 2024 — Appointed Creative Director of UNIQLOShe takes on the wider mainline remit from Fall/Winter 2024.
- 2024–Present — Creative Director — UNIQLOCurrent appointment · Fast Retailing
- 2023–Present — Designer, UNIQLO:C womenswear — UNIQLOCurrent appointment · Fast Retailing
- 2017–2020 — Artistic Director — GivenchyHistorical appointment · Vogue Italia
- 2011–2017 — Creative Director — ChloéHistorical appointment · Chloé