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Hilary Alexander is the Fashion Director of The Daily Telegraph. She won British Fashion Journalist of the Year 2003, the second time she has won this award. She was first named British Fashion Journalist of the Year in 1998. Born in New Zealand, she is a passionate traveller, long distance walker, gardener and cat-lover. In May 2001, she was awarded the title Visiting Professor by the University of the Arts, London, (the former London Institute) which is responsible for the fashion colleges, Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion and the Chelsea and Camberwell art colleges.

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Virgin territory: a new Zimmer frame

I haven’t written much or blogged in the last couple of weeks, being pre-occupied with getting to know the two latest accessories to enter my life: the Zimmer frame and crutches. The Zimmers in full swing as styled by Hilary Alexander My previous ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  28 May 2008

The bright spark of low-heeled boys

I was sorry to see the new Madame Sarkozy felt the need to ditch her stilettos in favour of flatties so she wouldn’t overshadow her husband. The difference in their political viewpoints may be as great as the difference in their heights, but that is no ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  11 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Tom Cruise,  Katie Holmes,  Nicole Kidman,  UNICEF,  Madonna

Skyscrapers and ten foot rats

I received quite a few surprises for my birthday today. But one I didn't expect was the sight of a huge rat on New York's West 44th Street. It was hideous, a sewer-grey colour with filthy teeth, mean squinty eyes and long claws. I didn't call the ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  5 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Damien Hirst

The Jetlag Stag

It’s quite amazing what you can pick up from a casual conversation with a cab-driver. Take the so-called ‘stag do’. Final destination: Las Vegas seems to be the No.1 choice for stag holidays I was aware it had long passed from being a simple, one-off ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  29 Jan 2008

A vote for Victoria

Working in fashion it is impossible not to be aware of the extraordinary position occupied by Victoria Beckham. Some loathe her, some love her. Some sneer at her ever-changing fashion persona and ridicule her as a style icon; others sense there is a ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  23 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Victoria Beckham,  Marc Jacobs,  Jennifer Lopez,  Uma Thurman,  Scarlett Johansson

A cane is a pain

Due to a severe spinal problem, I have been walking with a stick for the past two weeks. Walking sticks of the less fashionable variety Around London, it hardly attracts a second glance, but in the heady, effervescent ”Planet Fashion” world of the ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  22 Jan 2008
Related Topics: John Galliano

The immaculate beauty of Oman

Can a motorway ever be pretty; a four-lane highway described as a delight to the eye? They can in the Sultanate of Oman, where the road system is built hand-in-hand with landscaping, gardens and sculpture. The snaking coils of tarmac are softened by ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  17 Jan 2008

A walk on the Nile side

It’s a bit of a case of ‘The Tut, the whole Tut and nothing but the Tut’ in London this month. The entire city seems to have fallen under the spell of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy-king, who is the 3,000 year-old star of a fabulous exhibition opening ...

From HILARY ALEXANDER, The Telegraph,  13 Nov 2007
Related Topics: Zandra Rhodes,  Elizabeth Taylor

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