Felicity Green

Felicity Green (born 26 June 1926) is a British fashion journalist and former newspaper executive.

Early life and career Green was born in June 1926 and raised in Dagenham, Essex in rooms above a bike shop. From an impoverished Jewish background, Green's father ran a local shoe shop while her mother, though deaf, was the more formidable parent. Her father was cruel to her mother, although Green, their only child, attempted to control his behaviour. She did share a love of the cinema with him, and they saw two double features together each Thursday. From the movies, Green acquired her interest in glamour and fashion.

Initially a short hand typist and secretary at Woman & Beauty in the 1940s, she was promoted to fashion editor within two years. After this she joined Housewife, where she assumed the same post, and then W.S. Crawford, the advertising agency, for a time.

Mirror Group journalist In 1955, Hugh Cudlipp asked Green's opinion of Woman's Sunday Mirror, a publication for which he was responsible. Following a severe analysis, she was hired as Fleet Street's first female associate editor. Her writing for the paper included fashion, although Green wrote in 2011 that she is really more interested in style, and admitted to modelling herself on film star Audrey Hepburn. For including the miniskirts of Mary Quant in the Mirror, Green was effectively threatened with the sack by Cecil King, then chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, of which the Mirror Group of Newspapers was a part.

Sex, Sense and Nonsense, published in November 2014, is Green's anthology of her 1960s work for the Daily Mirror. In the early 1990s Green was a senior lecturer in fashion journalism at the Central St. Martins College of Art and Design.