Alexandra Shulman CBE, Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue 1992-2017, speaker and journalist, specialising in fashion, media, retail, social observation and women’s issues.

Success has much to do with luck and timing but also in faith and trust in yourself and what you believe.

Career:

First female editor of GQ men’s magazine

Longest serving Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue

Freelance journalist and contracted writer to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday

Author of four books

Appointments:

CBE for services to magazines

OBE for services to fashion journalism

Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery

Trustee of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity

Trustee of the Wallace Collection

Vice President of London Library

I left Vogue to have a new life in 2016. 25 years at the same desk was enough. It has been fascinating to learn what it is like to jump, without a plan into a different way of living.

'Clothes... and other things that matter is a book not only about clothes but about the way we live our lives. From childhood onwards, the way we dress is a result of our personal history. In a mix of memoir, fashion history and social observation I am writing about the person our clothes allows us to be and sometimes the person they turn us into.'