Hilary Alexander, February 2008 (photo: Ed Kavishe, Fashion Wire Press).

Hilary Alexander is the Fashion Director of The Daily Telegraph.

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.

Hilary has extensive broadcast experience that includes three years on BBC 2’s Style Challenge, regular appearances on GMTV, Lorraine Kelly, BBC Breakfast and various documentaries for BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4, as well as the fashion stylist for the first season of Britain's Next top model. She has also appeared in national channels in Germany, France, Spain, Russia and China. She has appeared on The Weakest Link and is regularly interviewed for major fashion cable channels including Fashion File, Fashion TV and Video Fashion as well as for major radio stations. She is the regular stylist and presenter for the Designer Catwalk shows at the annual Clotheshow Live in Birmingham. Hilary was the featured stylist in the Living TV series “Britain’s Next Top Model” in 2005 and 2006 and also appears in the latest series.

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.

Hilary often works with press co-ordinator, Kate Williams.

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