Plum Sykes

Plum Sykes, actually Victoria Sykes, ( born December 4, 1969 in London ) is a British author, fashion journalist and member of the New York high society.

Life

Sykes great-grandfather was the politician Mark Sykes, her grandfather, Christopher Sykes was known as the official biographer of writer Evelyn Waugh and her mother Valerie Goad worked as a designer and model. Sykes grew up as one of six siblings in Sevenoaks in Kent, where she attended the Sevenoaks School. Her twin sister Lucy Sykes works as a designer and was fashion director of U.S. Marie Claire.

After completion of the study of history at Worcester College, Oxford, she worked from 1994 in the British edition of Vogue as a fashion assistant until her Anna Wintour in 1996 offered a job as a fashion editor at American Vogue. Sykes moved in 1996 to New York, where she soon became known in New York's high society as the " It Girl ". After a much-publicized by the tabloids broken engagement of artist Damian Loeb you were accused of, among other affairs with Bryan Adams and Tate Donovan. Since 2005, Sykes is with Toby Rowland, son of tycoon Tiny Rowland, married. The couple have two daughters.

Publications

In 2004, Sykes published with Bergdorf Blondes her first novel, set in the New York fashion world. She received an advance of $ 625,000 for her debut novel. The novel was published in 2005 under the title of Park Avenue Princesses in Germany and, with around 250,000 copies sold worldwide of the most successful works of the so-called "chick lit". Critics accused Sykes, among other things of distance, as parallels to their own lives exist.

The second novel, The Debutante Divorcee in 2006 appeared under the title Society Girls in Germany in 2008 and dealt with " rich, beautiful, glamorous single women in New York. " He was criticized, among other things, because it even more than the debut novel name again of luxury brands - around two per side - stringing together and thus tries to replace action, people characterizations and feelings. Since the novel consists in large part of outfit descriptions, descriptions of luxurious parties and just such hotel suites, arises the impression of a Vogue issue with little content, so the criticism.

Works

• 2004: Park Avenue Princesses ( Bergdorf Blondes ) (Eng. 2005)
• 2006: Society Girls (The Debutante Divorcee ) (Eng. 2008)