Trinny Woodall

Some of her early jobs included taking coats at a restaurant, working as a secretary for a commodities company, aged eighteen, doing PR and using her contacts to promote her employer's restaurant, and working for Anoushka Hempel. In her marketing career, she did work for clients including Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, the owner of Sudeley Castle. She was discontented during her time working in marketing, commenting: "I wasn’t doing what I felt I should be doing, but what other people felt I should do. If you live your life like that you are never very happy." Despite working in marketing, Woodall's love for fashion was not suppressed. She would regularly customize her garments from the high street, and took to making her own fashion accessories, which she sold to Harvey Nichols and Harrods.

Woodall and Susannah Constantine first met at a dinner party hosted by David, Viscount Linley, but initially did not get along well. Woodall originally thought of Constantine as a stuck-up English aristocrat, and Constantine in turn saw Woodall as 'Eurotrash'. Woodall later commented that they were "like dogs sniffing round each other." Despite their initial differences, they collaborated in 1994 on Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for The Daily Telegraph which ran for seven years. The style guide highlighted affordable high-street fashion, with the pair using themselves to demonstrate clothing that suited different figures. Woodall assumed the role of stylist and made the company's business decisions. Read Less