Angelica Hicks

Hicks was born on 16 September 1992 to Marina Allegra Federica Silvia Tondato, an Italian designer, and Ashley Louis David Hicks, a British artist and interior designer.^[1][2] Her parents divorced in 2009.^[3] Her mother later married the Italian nobleman and sailor Roberto Mottola di Amato and her father later married the American fashion editor Kata Sharkey de Solis.^[4]

Hicks' paternal grandparents were the English interior decorator and designer David Nightingale Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten, who served as a bridesmaid and as a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth II.^[3] Through her grandmother, Hicks is a relative of the Mountbatten family, itself a branch of the German princely Battenberg family, and a relative of the British royal family.^[5] She is included in the line of succession to the British throne. Hicks' great-grandparents, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and The Honourable Edwina Ashley, served as the Viceroy and Vicereine of India.^[3] She is a great-great-granddaughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg (later the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven) and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Hicks grew up in Chelsea, London and was educated at a boarding school.^[1][6] She studied art history in London.^[7]

Hicks works as a visual artist and fashion illustrator.^[8][9] She partnered with the Italian luxury fashion house Gucci in 2017 to create a line of eleven t-shirts.^[10][11] For the occasion, she unveiled two murals, one in New York City and another in Milan, and created a Snapchat filter to promote the collection.^[10] In March 2017, she released a fashion illustration book titled Tongue in Chic through Laurence King Publishing.^[5]

Hicks also made commissioned pieces for the American fashion designer Tory Burch and illustrated for the magazines Elle and Porter.^[11][12]

In 2021, Hicks launched a TikTok channel where she parodies haute couture outfits from red carpet events and fashion shows, recreating them out of duct tape, trash bags, metallic wrappers, foil, candy, and other materials.^[13][14][15] Her recreations included a Louis Vuitton tank dress worn by Emma Corrin on the cover of Vogue, which she made out of multigrain crackers, a Maison Schiaparelli couture cape that she made out of a white mattress cover, and Cagole boots by Balenciaga that she made out of duct tape.^[14] Her channel went viral in March 2022, after she made a video recreating a Schiaparelli dress worn by Maggie Gyllenhaal at the 94th Academy Awards.^[14][16] By July 2022, Hicks amassed over 48,000 followers and her videos collectively received over 4 million likes.^[14] Her videos led to Hicks collaborating with Valentino and Vogue Italia.^[16][17] By September 2022, Hicks had over 86,000 followers on TikTok.^[18]

Hicks resides in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, New York.^[16][19]