Building a lifestyle brand including the gritty failures and success
Program Titles
- An Unexpected Journey
India Hicks has built a career at the intersection of design, storytelling, and humanitarian work. Raised in a creative environment, she went on to forge her own path—working across interiors, fashion, and lifestyle for over three decades.
She has authored five design books and collaborated on projects ranging from hotels to home collections, and contributed on-air to networks including the BBC and Bravo.
Her perspective is grounded in real-world experience building a lifestyle business while navigating reinvention, growth, and resilience.
Designer, entrepreneur, and author, India Hicks’ father was famed interior decorator David Hicks, and her mother is Lady Pamela Hicks, whose father was the last Viceroy of India.
India has often made bold life choices that have led to a multifaceted, unexpected journey.
She has authored four design books, modeled for Ralph Lauren, among others, and been an on-air personality for networks ranging from Bravo to the BBC. She has designed for over two decades – from hotels to home collections.
After closing her eponymous lifestyle brand, India now consults with fashion, home, and lifestyle brands.
India launched a Podcast series – a look into the life of her extraordinary mother, Lady Pamela – recording wonderfully intimate conversations between mother and daughter.
In “Lady Pamela”, India Hicks, the model and designer, shares how her mother is also the person who inspired her passion for adventure.
Lady Pamela is Hick’s mother and the subject of the stunning Rizzoli biography. Here, India, the model and designer, shares how her mother is also the person who inspired her passion for adventure.
If you loved The Crown for the intriguing insights it presented of life inside “The Firm,” the just-released visual biography of Lady Pamela Hicks – youngest daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, first cousin of Prince Philip, bridesmaid and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II – is an essential royal read.
“A large part of my mother’s life was spent living in the shadows,” says her daughter India Hicks, who is the author of Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks. “She was in the shadow of my grandparents. In the shadow of the Queen. The shadow of her husband David.
Hicks felt it was finally time to share the extraordinary story of her life.”
- The story of four houses filled with heritage & history and the power of family legacies.
- Action on the front lines of philanthropy, relief, and recovery.
- Lessons from life on a small island in the Bahamas and the richly inspired aesthetics.
Books by India Hicks
- India Hicks: A Slice of England
- An Entertaining Story
- Island Life: Inspirational Interiors
- Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks
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