Julian Roberts studied womenswear in Newcastle upon Tyne, and completed his menswear MA at the Royal College of Art, London. He has shown 13 collections at London Fashion Week under five label names: nothing nothing, JULIANAND, Julian and Sophie, Parc deS EXpositions, and Tunnel Technique.
He was also creative director of SuperSuper Magazines (two group shows at London Fashion Week) in 2007/8.
Julian is currently Fashion Host of BBC Blast online.
He was awarded a Professorship and set up the new fashion school at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK in 2004, and now lectures in Mixed Media Textiles (MA) at the Royal College of Art in London, and at eight other universities worldwide. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Brighton University, Liverpool John Moores University, Bath Spa University College, Glasgow School of Art, TEKO University Denmark, Illinois Institute of Art & Design Chicago, Kent State University Ohio, and the Royal Institute of Great Britain.
Julian Roberts is the inventor of a garment pattern cutting method called 'Subtraction Cutting', which he demonstrates live in front of large audiences in America and the UK, teaching people of all ages and levels of expertise how to construct creative clothing.