About

Bethan Cole is an award-winning journalist and author who has been writing for over 27 years. She specialises in beauty, fashion and music but has also covered lifestyle generally, the arts and health. Her wealth of journalistic experience includes reportage, opinion pieces and celebrity profiles. She has written for British Vogue, Vogue Japan, Vogue China, The Sunday Times Style, GQ Style, US Elle, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Financial Times, Grazia, Stylist, FT How To Spend It, FT Life and Arts, i-D magazine and the NME. She has closely collaborated with the fashion designer and academic Peter Jensen and the make up artist and brand founder Pat McGrath on a series of projects. Bethan also works as an editor, proofreader and copywriter and has offered consultancy expertise to a broad spectrum of beauty companies including Aesop, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Shu Uemura, Givenchy/LVMH, Avon, Elizabeth Arden and The Body Shop. Her first novel ‘Elegy for Detroit’ is available here and here and her second and third novels ‘Skirting the Margins’ and ‘The Glide of Swans’ are also available from Amazon. Her fourth book ‘(Everywhere is) Closed on Sundays’, a memoir of her 1970s childhood has just been published in Kindle and paperback formats.