Justine Picardie

Justine Picardie (born 1961) is a British novelist, fashion writer and biographer.

Career

Picardie is a former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar UK and Town & Country UK. Her 2010 biography of Coco Chanel, Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards. A long-time question among fashion historians and experts about whether the famous pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was made by Chanel in France or a quality copy purchased from New York's semiannual Chez Ninon collections was resolved by Picardie, who showed (as written in Picardie’s 2010 book Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life) that the suit was a garment made by Chez Ninon using Chanel's approved "line for line" system with authorized Chanel patterns and materials.

Picardie’s elder son is , the guitarist for Bombay Bicycle Club.

Works