Lisa armstrong daily telegraph biography templates

British author and journalist

Lisa ArmstrongOBE is a British author and journalist.

Lisa armstrong daily telegraph biography templates

She is Head of Fashion of The Daily Telegraph.^[1] She was awarded an OBE in 2022 for services to fashion.^[2]

Early life and education

Born in the UK, Armstrong grew up in Dorset in the sixties and seventies, where she says that "fashion didn't really exist".^[3] She graduated in 1984 from the University of Bristol,^[4] where she studied English and French Literature, then journalism at City, University of London.^[5] In 2011, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Arts London.^[6] In 2002, Armstrong was awarded with Fashion Journalist of the Year at the Fashion Awards.

In 2017, she was presented with the Fashion Journalist of the Year award by the Press Association, which she was also presented with in 2019.

Journalism

After graduating, Armstrong was offered a job at Elle UK afte