Alison Edmond was the Creative & Fashion Director of Harper's Bazaar UK from 1997–2010. She then moved from London to live in Los Angeles, and is now styling freelance editorially and for advertising. She remains Los Angeles Editor for Harper's Bazaar UK, Fashion Editor at Large for Marie Claire US, and is also Ambassador for British Fashion in Los Angeles for The British Fashion Council.

Career

She grew up in the North East of England, and went to art college in Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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. She began her career in magazines in September 1986, hired by Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour

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 as Art Coordinator of British Vogue

Vogue (British magazine)

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, assisting then Art Director, John Hind. She moved in to the fashion department two years later under the editorship of Elizabeth Tilberis, and went from assisting Fashion Director Anna Harvey and Mens Editor Marcus von Ackermann, to being a Fashion Editor in her own right.

When Liz Tilberis moved to the US to edit Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar

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in 1992, Edmond followed her to the States, where Tilberis made her West Coast Editor of the magazine, based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. She lived there for five years, mainly styling celebrities for the magazine, including Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt

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, Cameron Diaz

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 and Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

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.

Upon her return to London, she was appointed Fashion Director of Harper's & Queen in September 1997. When editor Lucy Yeomans

Lucy Yeomans

Lucy Yeomans is the editor of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar in the UK.-Career:Yeomans graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1992 and began her writing career a year later in Paris where she was arts editor and then editor for the English language lifestyle monthly Boulevard...

 joined the magazine in 2000, Edmond was promoted to Creative / Fashion Director. Edmond worked closely with Yeomans on the transition of Harper's & Queen to Harper's Bazaar as the revered fashion magazine it is today, and styled both the significant first covers with the name change - actress Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett

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 on March 2006, and model Georgia Frost

Georgia Frost

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 in September 2007. She has styled almost one hundred covers for the magazine in her tenure, worked with most of the top photographers in the industry, and her style became synonymous with the visual of the magazine. In May 2007, Harper's Bazaar received the top award at the PPA Awards

PPA Awards

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 and was named Consumer Magazine of the Year, beating Vogue.

Edmond is also one of the best known celebrity stylists in the industry, doing personal styling for Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow

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 and Thandie Newton

Thandie Newton

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 amongst others, and has shot covers including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller

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, Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz

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, Liv Tyler

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, Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts

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, Kate Bosworth

Kate Bosworth

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, Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly

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, Katherine Heigl, and Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley

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. She also works with Simon Cowell's record company Syco as a Creative Consultant.

Family

Edmond is married to John Pearson, and has three children. In July 2009 they moved from London to live and work in Los Angeles.
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