Grace Wales Bonner was born in South London to a white English mother and a Jamaican father and was raised between her mother’s home in Dulwich and her father’s home in Stockwell following her parents’ divorce.
Wales Bonner studied at Central Saint Martins art school, graduating in 2014, and winning the L’Oréal Professionnel Talent award for her BA collection “Afrique”.
Following that, she won the “Emerging Talent – Menswear” award at the 2015 British Fashion Awards, the 2016 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, the British Fashion Council/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund (2019), and the CFDA International Men’s Designer of the Year (2021).
In 2019 she curated her debut show, A Time For New Dreams, for the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which was an exploration of magical resonances within black cultural and aesthetic practices, and focused on the shrine “as a symbolic pathway for imagining different worlds and possibilities”. The exhibition, which drew 25,000 visitors, was inspired by a collection of essays by Nigerian writer Ben Okri, and featured work by several artists (including Chino Amobi, Black Audio Film Collective, David Hammons, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Liz Johnson Artur, Rashid Johnson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Eric N. Mack, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya), as well as footage of African-American writer Ishmael Reed.
According to Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery: “Grace is a fashion designer, but she is also a thinker, a writer, and an editor. She connects various fields, from music to art.”
Grace was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri to collaborate with Dior in the same year to reinterpret the house’s New Look silhouette for the Resort 2020 collection. Wales Bonner was named to the 2021 edition of the annual Powerlist the following year, in 2020.
Grace Wales Bonner Husband: Is Grace Wales Bonner Married?
There is no information available about her marital status.