Plum Sykes

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Plum Sykes , actually Victoria Sykes , (born December 4, 1969 in London ) is a British author, fashion journalist and member of the New York high society .

Life

Sykes great-grandfather was the politician Mark Sykes , her grandfather Christopher Sykes became known as the official biographer of the writer Evelyn Waugh and her mother Valerie Goad worked as a designer and model. Sykes grew up as one of six siblings in Sevenoaks , Kent , where she attended Sevenoaks School . Her twin sister Lucy Sykes works as a designer and was the fashion director of the American Marie Claire .

After graduating from Worcester College with a degree in history at the University of Oxford , she worked as a fashion assistant for the British edition of Vogue from 1994 until Anna Wintour offered her a position as a fashion editor at American Vogue in 1996. Sykes moved to New York in 1996 , where she soon became known as the " It Girl " in New York high society . After the betrothal of artist Damian Loeb, which was widely noticed by the gossip press , she was said to have had affairs with Bryan Adams and Tate Donovan , among others . Sykes has been married to Toby Rowland, son of tycoon Tiny Rowland , since 2005 . The couple have two daughters together.

Publications

In 2004 Sykes published Bergdorf Blondes, her first novel set in the New York fashion world. She received an advance of $ 625,000 for her debut novel. The novel was also published in Germany in 2005 under the title Park Avenue Prinzessinnen and, with around 250,000 copies sold worldwide, is one of the most successful works of the so-called " Chick lit ". Critics accused Sykes, among other things, of a lack of distance because there are parallels to her own life.

The second novel The Debutante Divorcée from 2006 appeared under the title Society Girls 2008 in Germany and again dealt with "rich, beautiful, glamorous single women in New York." It was criticized, among other things, because it was even more so than the debut novel name of luxury brands - around two per page - strung together and thus tries to replace action, characterizations and feelings. Since the novel consists largely of outfit descriptions, descriptions of luxurious parties and hotel suites, the impression is of a Vogue edition with little content, according to the criticism.

Works

  • 2004: Park Avenue Princesses (Bergdorf Blondes) (German 2005)
  • 2006: Society Girls (The Debutante Divorcée) (German 2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rowan Pelling: My best friends, the ultimate It-Girls . In: Telegraph, April 21, 2005.
  2. ^ Hadley Freeman: Victoria's Secret . In: The Guardian , May 17, 2004.
  3. ↑ Anne Petersen: What does this woman have that you don't have? Interview with Plum Sykes . In: Brigitte, 11, 2005.
  4. ↑ Gaby Wood: Victoria's Secrets . In: Guardian, May 14, 2006.
  5. ↑ rich, single, beautiful, glam women in New York. See Sarah Horne: A Moment With Plum Sykes ( Memento April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Fashion Daily Weekly, April 19, 2006.
  6. ↑ Christine Muhlke: Unwedded Bliss . In: nytimes.com, June 4, 2006.
  7. ↑ ... who drops even more luxury brand names as a means to provide plot, characterization and even feelings [...] Built around a slender framework of descriptions of outfits, glamorous parties, hotel suites and other Black Card pornography, it's Vogue with a narrative arc . Christine Muhlke: Unwedded Bliss . In: nytimes.com, June 4, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Sykes, Plum
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sykes, Victoria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and It-Girl
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH London