About Caroline Kellett
Lived 1960 – 2014 (aged 53–54). Caroline Kellett was a journalist.
Caroline Kellett (1960 - 26 August 2014), usually known just as Kellett, was a British journalist who was fashion editor of Tatler and held a number of other positions in British fashion journalism.
Kellett was born in Buckinghamshire and attended Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a BA degree in History in 1981. Known for her distinctive personal style, she once arrived at an Oxford party in a punk outfit of tartan minidress with a cannon ball chained to her ankle. She spent two years in India studying yoga. She was supportive of Karl Lagerfeld's updating of the Chanel look in the early 1980s, saying "All the stuff pre-Karl was so-o-o square."
She was fashion editor for the London Evening Standard in 1988 and later of Tatler. In 1997 she was the society editor of OK! magazine and she also worked for British W magazine. She was an active freelance writer.
Kellet married the French banker Jean-Marc Fraysse in 2002.
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British journalist
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Caroline Kellett was born in 1960 in Buckinghamshire.
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Caroline Kellett died on 26 August 2014.
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Caroline Kellett was a journalist.
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