Justine Picardie
Occupation(s)Author, editor
ChildrenJamie MacColl
RelativesRuth Picardie (sister)[1]

Justine Picardie is a British novelist, fashion writer and biographer.[2]

Career

Picardie is a former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar UK and Town & Country UK. Her 2010 biography of Coco Chanel was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards.[3] A long-time question among fashion historians and experts about whether the famous pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was made by Chanel in France or a quality copy purchased from New York's semiannual Chez Ninon collections was resolved by Picardie, who showed that the suit was a garment made by Chez Ninon using Chanel's approved "line for line" system with authorized Chanel patterns and materials.[4]

Personal life

Picardie's sister was the writer Ruth Picardie.[5]

Picardie’s eldest son is Jamie MacColl, the guitarist for Bombay Bicycle Club.[6]

Works

  • Picardie, Justine (2002). If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love After Death. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781573222112. OCLC 48391268.
  • —— (2004). Truth or Dare: A Book of Secrets Shared. London, U.K.: Picador. ISBN 9780330432016. OCLC 56652111.
  • —— (2004). Wish I May. London, U.K.: Picador. ISBN 9780330412216. OCLC 53391992.
  • —— (2006). My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781596911499. OCLC 62393015.
  • —— (2008). Daphne: A Novel. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781596913417. OCLC 217263983.
  • —— (2010). Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061963858. OCLC 664270219.
  • —— (2021). Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374210359. OCLC 1277506193.

References

  1. ↑ Picardie, Justine (15 September 2001). "Talk to me". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Meet The Author: Justine Picardie". BBC News. 27 September 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Justine Picardie". Althorp. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Picardie, Justine (2010). Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. London: HarperCollins. pp. 304–7.
  5. ↑ "Justine Picardie: 'My sister's profound love of life still inspires me every day'". i. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  6. ↑ Picardie, Justine (12 May 2014). "Stars in Her Eyes". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 28 August 2020.


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