Leith Clark (born 1979) is a

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, editor, and fashion journalist. She is best known as the founder and editor of '' Lula Magazine'' as well as the founder and editor of ''Violet Book'', a UK based fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Career

Editorial work

Clark interned for ''

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'' as a teenager before moving to ''

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''. Clark founded fashion magazine ''Lula'' in 2005. Clark credited her creation of ''Lula'' with her frustration with the sexualization of women in fashion magazines, wanting instead to make "a magazine of women looking at women, without that competitiveness and that hard edge that we think we need as we get older." In 2013 Clark announced that she was resigning as Lula's editor-in-chief. Instead she was leaving to create a new type of magazine for older women, ''Violet Book'', which Clark launched in 2014. Clark admitted in an interview that the magazine was inspired by "the way youth is over-celebrated." Clark has been the Style Director At Large of Harper's Bazaar UK since 2014.

Stylist work

Clark also works as a celebrity stylist counting among her current clients

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, and

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. Her past clients include

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. In 2017 and 2024 ''

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'' included her in their list of the 25 Most Powerful Stylists in Hollywood.

Personal life

Clark married to production designer James Hatt in 2012. They have a daughter, born in 2014.

References

External links

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