Charlie Porter

Pre-teen Charlie was mad about the newsagent’s: the place, at eight, to pick up Beano, then Smash Hits and, later, i-D. Baking with his mum and nan, though, proved even more influential: ‘They taught me to focus with seriousness and also lightness.’ He’d apply it to fashion writing, a métier ‘often dismissed as fluff, which gives you freedom to play with ideas’.