Lou Stoppard
Writer
Curator
Lou Stoppard is a writer, curator and broadcaster. Stoppard worked at SHOWstudio from 2011 to 2017, serving as the platform's editor for a number of years. Within this role, Stoppard conducted live video conversations with the likes of Wolfgang Tillmans, David Sims, ASAP Rocky, Jonathan Anderson, Travis Scott, Anna Sui, Kanye West and Peter Lindbergh. She instigated digital series such as Ugly, an exploration of deliberate awkwardness or oddness within fashion, and Print, a collaborative history of influential magazines and zines.
Stoppard has written for The Financial Times, Aperture, The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her books include a survey of the work of street photographer Shirley Baker, published by Mack in 2019, 'Pools’, an exploration of swimming in photography, published by Rizzoli in 2020, and ‘Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography’, published by MACK in 2024, to time with an exhibition of the same name, which she curated at MEP, Paris in Spring 2024. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as 'Five Stories for Phillip Guston', published by Printed Matter in 2024.
In 2016, Stoppard curated Mad About The Boy, an exploration of fashion's fascination with youth, at Fashion Space Gallery in London. In 2017, Stoppard's exhibition North: Fashioning Identity, co-curated with Adam Murray, opened at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. The exhibition later toured to Somerset House in London. In 2019, Stoppard curated The Hoodie, an exhibition exploring the heritage and impact of this much-discussed garment, at Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Stoppard holds a first-class BA in History from Oxford University, and an MA in Fashion from Central Saint Martins.
Lou Stoppard is a writer, curator and broadcaster. Stoppard worked at SHOWstudio from 2011 to 2017, serving as the platform's editor for a number of years. Within this role, Stoppard conducted live video conversations with the likes of Wolfgang Tillmans, David Sims, ASAP Rocky, Jonathan Anderson, Travis Scott, Anna Sui, Kanye West and Peter Lindbergh. She instigated digital series such as Ugly, an exploration of deliberate awkwardness or oddness within fashion, and Print, a collaborative history of influential magazines and zines.
Stoppard has written for The Financial Times, Aperture, The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her books include a survey of the work of street photographer Shirley Baker, published by Mack in 2019, 'Pools’, an exploration of swimming in photography, published by Rizzoli in 2020, and ‘Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography’, published by MACK in 2024, to time with an exhibition of the same name, which she curated at MEP, Paris in Spring 2024. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as 'Five Stories for Phillip Guston', published by Printed Matter in 2024.
In 2016, Stoppard curated Mad About The Boy, an exploration of fashion's fascination with youth, at Fashion Space Gallery in London. In 2017, Stoppard's exhibition North: Fashioning Identity, co-curated with Adam Murray, opened at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. The exhibition later toured to Somerset House in London. In 2019, Stoppard curated The Hoodie, an exhibition exploring the heritage and impact of this much-discussed garment, at Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Stoppard holds a first-class BA in History from Oxford University, and an MA in Fashion from Central Saint Martins.
