My friend Nikki Brewster, who has died aged 63 from acute myeloid leukemia, was a fashion stylist with a modern bohemian style that was appreciated by Tatler and Vogue magazines and loved by photographers including Mario Testino and Wendy Bevan. One of her best-known shoots featured Venus Williams and was shot by Koto Bolofo, who recently said of her: “In 1984, you gave me a chance to work for British Vogue where no door was opened for a black person like me. Thank you.”
Nikki was born in London to hoteliers Thomas and Yvonne Brewster (nee Dudley), but spent most of her early years enjoying a country life – with lots of horse riding and tennis – in Alfriston, Sussex, where her family moved to run the Deans Place hotel. She even had a donkey called Ribena.
