The two women wrote Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for The Daily Telegraph for seven years. In 1994, she first met Trinny Woodall at a party hosted by David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley. She proceeded to write about cars and then fashion. Whilst doing a piece for GMTV, he asked Constantine to report the women's World Cup Final in cricket. She then started working with the British Brain and Spine Foundation and consequently met the sports editor of The Daily Telegraph. She later came back to London working for designers such as Richard James, Patrick Cox, Alistair Blair and John Galliano which gained her an understanding of fashion. She worked as a shop girl in America for Giorgio Armani. She wrote a book about present giving, which prompted The Daily Telegraph to write an article implying she had never done a day's work in her life, something which deeply upset her. She later said of this time that she "lost virginity, went a bit mad." Constantine had taught children for three years, and also worked as a shop girl for Harrods. Early career Ĭonstantine originally did a year of Montessori training after she had left school but she then moved onto other projects such as studying sculpture in Brussels. Constantine immediately declined the offer and wrote "No fucking way" on the letter she had received. In mid-2007, Constantine spoke about how she received a letter from St Mary's School, inviting her to come back to the school to talk about her career and success to current pupils. She was first sent to boarding school at the age of 11 years, and recalls her first night away from home: "I sobbed uncontrollably into my pillow." Education Ĭonstantine was educated at boarding schools including Queen's Gate School in South Kensington, London and St Mary's School in Wantage, Oxfordshire which was run by Anglican nuns. Through her paternal grandmother, Marie Leonie Francoise (née van Haaren), she descends from Dutch prince William the Silent. He was of a Yorkshire landed gentry family that traces back to the 1100s. Her father, Joseph Constantine, was an Old Etonian who served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards. Constantine and Woodall have designed their own clothing range for Littlewoods which made its debut in 2007, followed by the release of their last fashion advice book, The Body Shape Bible.Ĭonstantine was born at Hammersmith, and raised at Knipton, a small village in Leicestershire. It is estimated that her various style advice books have sold 2.5 million copies in Britain and the United States. on ITV in 2006 and Undress the Nation in 2007.Īlthough not formally trained in journalism or in fashion, she has successfully co-written fashion advice books with Woodall, some of which have become best-sellers in the United Kingdom and United States. She made regular appearances as a style advisor on The Oprah Winfrey Show and following her success on the shows, she went on to co-host Trinny & Susannah Undress. From there they were commissioned to BBC Two to host the style series, What Not to Wear, from 2001 to 2005. They founded, a dot-com fashion advice business, and wrote their first fashion advice book in 2000, Ready 2 Dress, both of which failed. She met Trinny Woodall in 1994, with whom she proceeded to co-write a weekly fashion column, Ready to Wear. Constantine has been involved in fashion for a long period, originally working in America for Giorgio Armani and then John Galliano in London.
She was privately educated as a child and went on to date British royalty, David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, during the 1980s. Her second book, What Not to Wear, co-written with her fashion partner Trinny Woodall, won her a British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies.Ĭonstantine was born into a wealthy family her father was successful in property and shipping sectors.
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Susannah Caroline Constantine (born 3 June 1962) is an English former TV fashion 'guru', fashion writer, style advisor, television fashion presenter, author, clothes designer and occasional bit-part actress. Fashion stylist, television presenter, author
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