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POWERLIST 2008
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TANDY ANDERSON
Co-founder and Chief Executive, Select Models
AS A co-founder and dirAS A ector of Select, campaigns by Mary Quant, Miss Selfridge
Britain’s most prominent modelling and Nova magazine after she was scouted,
agency, Tandy’s leverage in the fashion aged 14, by the renowned Askew agency.
industry is monumental. Although her Her tenure on the popular reality TV show
reputation has been forged as one of the Make Me A Supermodel enshrined her
most consistently successful male-model public profi le as a no-nonsense, straight-
agents and scouts of the past decade, talking analyst.
Tandy’s most well known signings are, Tandy has also employed her industry
perhaps, model-cum-actress Sienna Miller clout and wider reputation to agitate for
and supermodel Helena Christensen. a more inclusive fashion industry and
Select’s modus operandi, which centres she regularly voices her criticism of the
on scouting for talent directly from the sparse representation of faces refl ecting
streets, has proved extremely successful African and Asian heritage on the nation’s
within the fashion industry and beyond. catwalks.
Select’s clients include Armani, Prada, She said: ‘I would like to see the
Burberry, Christian Dior, Gap, DKNY, British fashion industry taking more
Tommy Hilfi ger, Nautica, Jil Sander, M&S, risks and using a lot more black, Asian
Top Shop, Russell & Bromley, Jaeger, and Indian faces on the catwalks and
Fred Perry, Pringle, Next Directory and fashion magazines. We are a multi-racial
Mulberry. nation and this should be refl ected in
London-born Tandy’s own striking advertising.’
appearance results from her Jamaican/ Encouragingly, Tandy is infl uential
Scottish heritage and she graced enough to do something about it.
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DIANE ABBOTT MP
Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
DIANE ABBOTT is the longest serving over the past fi ve years demonstrates
African-Caribbean Member of Parliament Diane’s determination to continually
and because she is also the fi rst black champion causes she feels passionately
female MP, Diane will always be one of about.
Britain’s most signifi cant iconoclasts. In Parliament, Diane has served on
But it is, perhaps, her steadfast a number of committees, including,
adherence to the principles she espoused throughout the 90s, the infl uential
prior to and leading up to her June 1987 Treasury Select Committee. She also
Parliamentary debut that distinguishes enjoys a career as a TV pundit, having
London’s Hackney North and Stoke formed an unlikely double act with former
Newington MP. Tory MP Michael Portillo on the BBC
Unlike many backbench MPs, Diane has politics digest This Week.
never been one to simply blend into the A former journalist, she has worked
background and has been active in several as a reporter with TV AM and Thames
political and social movements. Television. Born in west London to
Education, particularly the way in Jamaican parents, Diane read history at
which schools deal with African-Caribbean Cambridge’s Newnham College and forged
children, is an issue close to her heart. her early reputation as a civil servant
She remains the host and chief organiser and activist who cut her political teeth
of the annual London Schools & The Black serving on Westminster City Council. She
Child conference, which attracts about was also a public relations offi cer with
2,000 parents, teachers, children and other the GLC and head of Lambeth Council’s
interested parties. This forum’s growth press offi ce.
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