She’s the author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes and Look Again: Fashion. Educated at the University of Cambridge and Cornell, her interests are in the intersection of literature, art and philosophy. She was the winner of The Observer Anthony Burgess Arts Journalism Prize 2016 and has been a judge for the Forward Poetry Prizes, the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize and the Booker Prize. She writes for The Financial Times, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Frieze magazine and is a Trustee of the Booker Prizes.