Kinvara is a director, producer, writer and speaker. Her work spans the worlds of fashion, tech, theatre and film. Kinvara has advised and directed the launch of several major tech start-ups in UK and USA. She hosts conversations with global game changers on stage and directs them on film. She speaks at conferences around the world about tech, trends and the zeitgeist. Kinvara is the creator of THE VISIONARIES, a series of mini-films shot on iPhone, filmed and directed by herself, which feature the key thought leaders of the world.

In 2018, Kinvara joined ​‘McQueen’​ – the feature documentary film about the late British designer Alexander McQueen - as Executive Producer. Co-directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, the film enjoyed global theatrical release in 2018 (Salon Pictures/Embankment Films/Lionsgate). It went on two receive two BAFTA nominations (Best Documentary, Outstanding British Film of the Year) and a host of other awards.

As of 2014, Kinvara hosts ‘Fashion in Conversation’​ for Apple Inc., a series of interviews with global icons (Tom Ford, Anna Wintour, Philip Treacy, Manolo Blahnik, Charlotte Tilbury, Natalie Massenet) at the Apple store which is available to an audience of over 900 million on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fashion-in-conversation-with-kinvara-balfour/id1023771164​. She has hosted interviews for AOL Build​ and IWC Schaffhausen ​#IWCTalksTo.​ She was recently commissioned to make a series of iPhone shorts featuring ‘The Architects of Time’ for Vanity Fair and UBS UNLIMITED.

As a public speaker and ’consultant of cool’, Kinvara speaks at events around the world for global brands and corporations including Procter & Gamble (for whom she compiles an International Trend Report), Richemont, MARKA, UBS, Access Bank and Jimmy Choo. Kinvara has lectured at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2014, she was one of a few young women invited to speak at President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit. She has acted as a mentor to YNG+, the next-gen members of YPO.

At 17, Kinvara won the Lloyd's Fashion Challenge, a national competition in fashion design, as judged by Vivienne Westwood. Kinvara went on to assist Westwood in her design studio. She then joined British couturier Tomasz Starzewski. Roles at Condé Nast and Telegraph Magazine, where Kinvara was Style Editor, followed.

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