About me
I love to write engaging, quirky editorial and marketing copy. What’s my background? I’ve been a writer, copywriter, shoot director and content editor for many years. Before freelancing for The Telegraph and a number of luxury brands such as De Beers Jewellers and One Aldwych, I was the editor of the Harrods’ publishing portfolio, from the main monthly magazine to Watches & Fine Jewellery, Harrods Man and Home & Property, as well as the digital app. I also took the magazine to the Asian and Arabian markets.
BRAND COLLABORATIONS
It has been my great pleasure to work with some of the most dynamic and enduring brands in the worlds of fashion, beauty, watches, jewellery, food, tech and interiors. Such brands include Dolce & Gabbana, De Beers Jewellers, Chanel, Christian Dior, Fendi, Chloe, Bulgari, Boodles, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Roja Dove, Clive Christian, Samsung, Smythson, Abercrombie & Kent, Isetan Japan and Harrods of London.
CAREER HISTORY
My CV includes work with numerous UK and international titles, including British and Japanese Vogue, as well as British ELLE where I was Contributing Editor, responsible for the Hollywood celebrity cover interviews. I specialised in first person pieces for Grazia, You Magazine and the Observer Magazine, and contributed beauty, lifestyle features and interviews to Marie Claire, Stella, Tatler, Red, Radio Times, Harper’s Bazaar Australia and the Royal Opera House magazine.
I have been a beauty director on Cosmopolitan, Bare and Nova, and had my own beauty columns in ES, The Times and Japanese Vogue. I also started the New Woman Beauty Awards, kickstarting many consumer product awards.
Travel is another passion and various titles, including Marie Claire, Luxury London and Sundowner have run my travel photography alongside my stories. I also edited Harrods Travel and one of my cover photographs made it to the final ten for Cover of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors, the same year I received a Highly Commended for Digital Editor of the Year for the Harrods app. If you click on the travel section, you can take a look at my gallery and check out a damn fine quote from Michael Palin.
My experience in producing marketing copy includes everything from campaign titles for Harrods’ Brompton Road windows to the till receipts for cosmetics companies. I was global copywriter for Jo Malone London for five years, working on brand tone of voice and copy for ads, marketing campaigns, international brochures, website, emails and in-house handbooks. I have also produced ad copy for Lancome, and worked on many PR projects for companies as diverse as P&G, Nivea, dunhill and Dr Nicholas Lowe.
I live with my husband Paul in west London and when I’m not writing, I am at endless ballet classes or away in far-flung places such as Antarctica, the Arctic Circle, Papua New Guinea or Namibia, taking photographs. Lots and lots of photographs.
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