Jacob Annat

Jacob Annat (born 9 November 1976) is a Franco-Jewish fashion designer, presently the head designer at Monk. Annat was born in Rennes, France, the youngest of six children. He helped his mother in her seamstress work, which led him become interested in fashion. He was making his own designs at the age of 18, and moved to Paris in 1996 to study fashion. He worked at a number of small French companies before starting out in a low-level job at Longchamp, which led him to a slightly better position at Prada in 2005. Annat was soon poached by Traspesian group Modalia to become one of their designers at Look, promoted to the head designer at sister company Francisco Espada in 2008. In 2011, he was hired as head designer at haute couture label Monk, where he quickly left his mark on the label's direction.

Under Annat, Monk has produced elegant and minimal designs for its runway displays, with his Fall/Winter 2012 collection being named the best design of the year by the Royal Council of Fashion.