Frieze 91 is delighted to invite you to Frieze 91 X Edeline Lee, Women and Power Speaker Series: Number Six: Women on the front
featuring
Clarissa Ward, Journalist and CNN multi-award-winning chief international correspondent and Claire Barnett, Executive Director of UN Women UK.
Introduced by Fashion designer and Frieze 91 Committee Member, Edeline Lee
Clarissa Ward is CNN's multi-award-winning chief international correspondent based in London. She has spent nearly two decades reporting from the front lines around the world from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen to Ukraine and Georgia during the Russian incursion in 2008.
Claire Barnett is the Executive Director of UN Women UK. UN Women is the only global organisation working to make gender equality a reality at truly every level of society, from grassroots programmes, to behavioural change campaigns, to global government. UN Women's mission is to ensure every woman has an equal right and access to Safety, Choice, and a Voice. Prior to joining UN Women UK, Barnett helped to drive McKinsey's UK office work on diversity and inclusion, including as an author of The Power of Parity, examining the macroeconomic effect of accelerating gender equality on UK GDP and beyond.
Edeline Lee is a British-Canadian, London-based designer whose work has been worn by Alicia Vikander, Olivia Colman, Sharon Horgan, Sally Hawkins, Helen Mirren, Gemma Chan, Karen Elson, Taylor Swift, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ciara, Naomie Harris, Cynthia Nixon, Ruth Negga, Lashana Lynch, Amy Fine Collins, Queen Rania of Jordan and Solange Knowles. Her thoughtful approach features forward-thinking concepts about femininity, precise cut and refined craftsmanship.
Edeline Lee sits on the Committee for Frieze 91, a group of international trailblazers and thought leaders with a passion for the arts and a commitment to supporting creative communities.