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Bio

I've enjoyed storytelling (and story-consuming) since before I could read.

At the age of three, my parents found me 'reading' The Usborne Book of Fairy Tales aloud. I'd memorised it from cover to cover, so I could devour it independently, at will.

It was The Chronicles of Narnia that really ignited my love of words, specifically The Magician's Nephew. I loved the idea of climbing into another world, although living in a 1980s house didn't lend itself very well to expansive attic spaces or cavernous antique wardrobes.

Speaking of wardrobes, I was as invested in their contents as the fantastical worlds to which they could provide time-travelling portals – specifically, fashion. In 2008, I completed my B.A. Hons in English Literature at the University of Warwick, having spent every university holiday nestled in the fashion cupboards of Vogue, the Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, WWD and Elle.

After starting my career in online journalism, I joined Net-a-Porter.com, where I ended up becoming Social Media Editor. In this newly created role, I travelled extensively, tweeted furiously, and spent an awful lot of time writing about beautiful clothes and beautiful people.

Afterwards, I stepped into the red-soled role of Social Media Editor at
Christian Louboutin, where I grew the brand to one million Instagram followers, oversaw the designer's launch on Chinese social media, and accumulated some very lovely shoes that still occupy a disproportionately large part of my home.

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I worked as Features Editor at MatchesFashion.com – a specially created, part-time (and quite frankly, dreamy) role that saw me commissioning some of my favourite writers, writing about  style, culture and art,  and

interviewing people including Virgil Abloh, Flume, Lou Doillon and Wild Beasts.

In 2016, I set up my digital agency, The Fashion Digital, which I ran for four years. There, I grew my one-woman consultancy to a team of six with a roster of global clients including Amazon, H&M and the British Fashion Council.

As a freelance writer, editor and strategist, I'm lucky enough to work with some of my favourite brands and publications, every day. I've helped shape the creative and digital outputs of 7 For All Mankind, H&M and Roland Mouret (amongst others), while penning editorial features for the likes of Harper's Bazaar, ELLE and VICE.


I have provided comment for titles including Wall Street Journal, Vogue Business and WWD, sat on judging panels for Digiday and The Drum, and spoken at Pure London, Mastered Live, and more. I also created and taught a social media course at Central Saint Martins. I was honoured in the BIMA Hot 100 2017 and named as a 'Power Pinner' by Pinterest, having accrued nearly 600k followers on the platform.

If you've read this far, thank you. The only things left to tell you is that I live with my partner Chris –and our cats, Fashion and Slash – in South London, and I really like marzipan fruits, vintage shopping, '60s girl bands and scouring the internet for scans of old FRUiTS magazines.


Photograph by Chris O'Donovan

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