io Takemura was born in Japan in 1982. Io took fashion design course in Japan and moved in UK. Io has graduated on BA(hons) Fashion promotion & Illustration by 2006 and went on MA Fashion and graduated by 2007 where she explore the idea of fashion communication. She works as fashion stylist. io uses variety of method to express her work, not only styling, she has grown the interest of fashion films and moving images.

io believes in ethical Fashion and has been creating work around ethical issues since 2005. She has styled for Esethica catalog at London Fashion Week 2009, io has won Prize for Eco Art Competition in Tokyo in 2006. She has been featured in BBC Thread, i-D, Yomiuri News Paper and Mono Magazine. Now she is a regular contributor for Sublime Magazine and Egg Mag.

io works as graphic designer too. She has done show invitations/ flyer for Junky Styling and magazine layout for Amelia’s Magazine.

Clients

Editorial:

Collective Magazine, Egg Mag, Estethica LFW, Deluxx Digital, Diva, H magazine (Spain), iLook (China), Indie Magazine, Living North, Material Girl magazine, Sublime, Random Magazine, Retro Magazine, Vision (China)

Commercial:

Beautiful Soul, Eco fair, Fernando Viana, Junky Styling, LCF Fashioning the future, MTV, Tammam TDA, Think Act Vote, Uncommonly Beautiful