Joe Casely-Hayford
Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford (24 May 1956 – 3 January 2019) was a British fashion designer. Beginning in the mid-1980s he established an international reputation as one of the UK's most respected and consistently relevant designers of men's and womenswear clothing. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the fashion industry, in the 2007 Birthday Honours. Personal life In 1976 Casely-Hayford met Maria Stevens at Saint Martin's School of Art. They married in 1980, and were life and business partners until his death in early 2019. In 2008 The Black Power List named the Casely-Hayford family the most influential black family in the UK. In 2006 his sister, Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE, became the General Counsel, Director of Legal Services at The Waitrose – John Lewis Partnership, a company with 70,000 employees. In 2014 she was appointed chair of ActionAid UK. In July 2017 she was named Chancellor of Coventry University. In February 2018 she was announced as The chair of the board of Shakespeare's Globe, taking over from Lord Bichard. He was the brother of cultural historian and director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE,