Kate Phelan

Kate Phelan (born 1964) is a British fashion journalist and stylist. She is currently the creative director of Harvey Nichols.

Biography Phelan grew up in Exeter, and studied fashion at Somerset College of Arts and Technology. In 1990, she left Vogue after three years to join Marie Claire as a senior fashion editor, but was asked back to British Vogue in 1993 by its new editor, Alexandra Shulman. Her favoured photographers included Paolo Roversi, Nick Knight, Tim Walker and Corinne Day. In 2013, she was asked to come back to Vogue in a part-time capacity. a designer who had previously caught her attention in 2012 when he was awarded Topshop sponsorship for his Spring-Summer 2013 collection.