Angelica Hicks

Angelica Margherita Edwina Hicks (born 16 September 1992) is a British fashion illustrator and internet personality. In 2017, she released the fashion illustration book Tongue in Chic. As the great-granddaughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a relative of the British royal family and is included in the line of succession to the British throne.

Early life and family 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. Her mother later married the Italian nobleman and sailor Roberto Mottola di Amato and her father later married the American fashion editor Kata de Solis.

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. She studied art history in London.

Career Hicks works as a visual artist and fashion illustrator. She partnered with the Italian luxury fashion house Gucci in 2017 to create a line of eleven t-shirts.

Hicks also made commissioned pieces for the American fashion designer Tory Burch and illustrated for the magazines Elle and Porter.

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. 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 Schiaparelli couture cape that she made out of a white mattress cover, and Cagole boots by Balenciaga that she made out of duct tape. By September 2022, Hicks had over 86,000 followers on TikTok.

Personal life Hicks resides in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, New York.