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Yvette Livesey

Yvette Livesey began a modelling career at 15 which took her to the catwalks of Milan and Paris working for Chanel and Givenchy. In 1987 she became Miss United Kingdom, going on to represent the UK at the Miss Universe finals at Singapore in 1988.

In the early 90’s she worked as a feature journalist for Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and presented some children’s TV programme for Granada Television.

She was the driving force behind the creation of ‘In The City’ in 1992 which has established itself as the annual UK music industry convention and has the reputation as the world’s premier new music event.

In the mid nineties she was a founder partner of Musis33.com, a visionary website at it’s time and the first music download site with fully operational encryption and micro payments.

With her partner the late Anthony Wilson she created a number of businesses working as Livesey-Wilson Associates Ideas Management.

Her solo business, Art & Freight Ltd, represents top young designers and artists, from the North West particularly.