TASTEMAKER AND HOTELIER. Jasper Conran is a British designer who studied at Parsons School of Art and Design in New York. He has worked on collections of womenswear and for the home, as well as productions for the stage in ballet, opera and theatre. He opened his first hotel in Morocco, L'Hôtel Marrakech, recently followed by Villa Mabrouka in Tangier.

"I have a store of ideas in my head, and this ability to switch from one thing to another."

"Theatre and ballet let me go crazy."

"I went to see the Saint Laurent house and bought it immediately. I could see what it could be as a hotel."