Birth Name: Alexandra Shulman
Birth Date: born in 1958
Occupation: Editor of British Edition “Vogue”
Achievement: She received an OBE(Order of the British Empire), in 2004.
She is the daughter of late drama critic Milton Shulman and the writer Drusilla Beyfus. She has also written for “The Daily Telegraph” and “The Daily Mail”. She took helm of Vogue in 1992. She began her fashion journalism career at “The Tatler” in 1982. She was named “Editors’ Editor of the Year” by the British Society of Magazine Editors. And she is a trustee of the “National Portrait Gallery”.
Alexandra Shulman is famed for her cool intelligence, her skills lie in plotting a path between couture and high street fashion and giving readers plenty of fantasy as well as reality. She began her career at Condé Nast in 1982, working under legendary editor Mark Boxer and going on to become features editor of Vogue before editing GQ magazine and subsequently returning to Vogue as its editor.
Since her editorship, Vogue’s readership has been risen to over a million readers. Thanks to collector’s issues such as Gold millennium issue and cover stars ranging from Kate Moss to Victoria Beckham, plus she is credited with fostering photographers of the moment such as Mario Testino and Tim Walker.
