Beauty Vlogger Claire Marshall On Dealing With Family Tragedy Alone
Claire Marshall is one of You Tube’s early adopters; a beauty mega-influencer with over 900k subscribers and more than 700k followers on Instagram to boot, she’s worked with brands from as Sephora to Samsung. Here she talks about dealing with her mother’s Alzheimer’s, how as an adoptee she’s begun to connect…
Lucy Williams on Why Instagram Life’s Not All a Beach
One of the U.K’s most successful bloggers, Lucy Williams’ style is shorthand for a particular brand of effortless cool with a side of wanderlust. For the past seven years she’s been blogging on her lifestyle platform Fashion Me Now and has built a loyal audience which follows her global jaunts…
Roxie Nafousi On Depression, Heartbreak & Social Media
Blogger, former celebrity stylist, Marie Claire contributor and mental health awareness advocate Roxie Nafousi, appears to live a gilded life through the frames of social media. But her younger days were blighted by racial bullying, disordered eating, depression and low self-esteem. When at 23 everything unravelled, she struggled to keep…
Laura Jackson on Crippling Anxiety & Dealing with Stage Fright
Laura Jackson is a creative polymath with a career spanning TV presenting, modelling, writing a food column for Marie Claire and hosting the infamous Jackson&Levine supper clubs with her partner in crime, Radio 1 DJ, Alice Levine. With her first cookbook about to be published, a tie-in with Habitat coming…
Jessica Lemarié-Pires on Overcoming Her Mother’s Suicide & Being More Than Just a ‘WAG’
Footballer’s wife, ex-model and mother to three gorgeous children—when it comes to having it all, Jessica Lemarié-Pires’ life looks pretty picture perfect. But, five years ago in the wake of her mother’s suicide, her life fell apart. Here Jess discusses for the first time what it was like to grow…
Laura Fantacci on Imperfect Motherhood & the Dangers of Comparison
Laura Fantacci was an early digital adopter, starting her blog Wearing It Today back in 2009. With a background in fashion editorial, she built her community while working as Shopping Editor at Red magazine. Seeking more balance after she had her first child, Laura set up Wardrobe ICONS, a multi-faceted…
Emily Cronin on the Joys & Challenges of Raising Twins While Working in Fashion
Motherhood is by far the biggest challenge that women have contacted me to cover since I launched WorkWorkWork—but rather than confronting the emotional, physical and professional shifts that come with kids, Emily Cronin, mother of three-year-old twins and fashion features editor for The Telegraph magazines, suggested I approach it from a logistical…
Irina Lakicevic: Dentist, Creative, Street Style Star, Refugee
Irina Lakicevic is one of the fashion pack’s most recognised faces, with her angular cheekbones and directional silhouettes setting trends for next season and beyond. While some know her as the dentist-blogger—she practises in Norway—few know about her experiences of war and living as a refugee. Here Irina talks about…
Money’s Too Tight To Mention
As well as making the world go round, money—specifically how much you have—is one thing that social media can wildly distort. Here WWW’s editor Katherine Ormerod offers a frank account of her financial life and why her salary often hasn’t exactly reflected her social media lifestyle. It’s About Money While we…
Anissa Kermiche on Workplace Prejudice & How Stress Killed Her Creativity
Anissa Kermiche is one of jewellery’s brightest breakout stars of the past 12 months and her award winning designs are now stocked at some of the world’s most respected retail destinations from Net-a-Porter to the Conran Shop. But while her meteoric rise may have seemed effortless, a whirlwind year took its…