When he first founded fashion retail space Machine-A in London, Stavros Karelis gave small and independent artists and designers a stage to express themselves upon.

Quickly, the conceptual boutique became more than just retail, but a cultural hub frequented by artists and creatives like Scissor Sisters, Lady Gaga, Anna Trevelyan, Nicola Formichetti and more. Since its inception in 2013, Karelis has turned it into a global experimental space where young and exciting designers sit firmly alongside established brands, launching the careers of many of the industry's greats through giving them creative freedom in how their designs interact.

Coming into the Fashion Forensics hot seat, he talks about his early British influences - from the cult classic Trainspotting all throughout The Prodigy, and how it all led him to pursue his ultimate goal of moving two steps ahead of the industry, and experiment.

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Designer and Creative Director Sandra Choi has devoted her life into building a global shoe empire, starting out by learning the craft in her uncle Jimmy Choo's London workshop. Since then, 29 years later, she is still the core nucleus driving forward one of the biggest fashion brands in the world.

Coming onto Fashion Forensics, Choi recalls the memories that defined her life - from accepting Princess Diana's request to create custom pairs of shoes to match her dress, through kitting out Carrie Bradshaw's shoe closet, moments before uttering the iconic "I Lost My Choo!" line, all through collaborating with fashion visionaries like Virgil Abloh, Rihanna and Beyoncé, her sharp focus has led her to become one of the leaders in the fashion industry, championing constant evolution.

As she sits in the hot seat this week, Choi looks back on 30 years of designing shoes, and the decision behind bringing some of our most beloved icons back for their second act.

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Being raised by multiple generations of strong, resilient women, model and activist Cora Corré has carried the legacy of her grandmother - the ultimate punk disruptor and designer Vivienne Westwood - forward by making fashion think about what matters most.

Expanding the humanitarian work of The Vivienne Foundation into further developing projects and raising funds for humanitarian crisis response funds, Corré has taken Westwood's all-important message of utilising your own platform to speak up about what matters most, and brought it into every part of her life.

Coming on Fashion Forensics, she shares about her childhood filled with lust for exploration - from going to her very first protest at the age of four, all the way to showcasing projects about the Sex Pistols at school as her own form of defying the educational norms.

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