Mark Bage

Buyer. Retail director. Creative director. CEO. Mark Bage has done it all, and he's been doing it for three decades. He doesn't talk about fashion from the outside. He's been inside it, running it.

Coggles gets mentioned a lot. It deserves to be. A brilliant independent lifestyle store, taken fully digital before the rest of the industry knew what that meant. Under Mark's leadership it hit £100 million in total turnover, with over 200 staff, and became one of the UK's most respected online fashion platforms. Buyer of the Year. Ranked 47th in the Drapers Power List of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Fashion Industry. The template he built is still being borrowed today.

Stints at Grazia, French Connection, Paul Smith, Nicole Farhi and Evisu followed. Then came Not Studio, built on one straightforward idea: fashion brands deserve a creative agency that truly understands fashion. How it looks, works, sells and stays relevant.

Mark and his Not Studio team then created Sneak in Peace. The world's largest luxury sneaker portal, curated with the same sharp eye Mark applies to everything else. Not a sneakerhead site. A destination for people who care about the luxury end of the sneaker world.

Strong opinions. No hesitation in sharing them. Three decades of real experience, put to work.