Babette Radclyffe-Thomas

Babette is an award-winning journalist who has worked at some of the most influential fashion and style publications in Hong Kong, China and England including Vogue China, Prestige and LifeStyle. Babette is a brand consultant and strategist (Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Comms, Digital Content Creation) working with a wide array of clients internationally.

Babette is a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts London and her academic research and professional expertise cover Chinese fashion and beauty, Chinese fashion media, identity and gender representations. Her award-winning PhD research has been presented at conferences worldwide, with a prospective book publishing project after completion. She guest lectures at universities worldwide.

A high distinction MA Fashion Journalism graduate from the London College of Fashion, she won the 2013 Harpers Bazaar Art Plus Fashion Journalism Prize. She is also a freelance journalist and has been published in Harpers Bazaar, Business of Fashion, China Daily among others, and was the Editor of S Style Magazine.

Babette speaks, reads and writes Mandarin Chinese. As a Chinese beauty expert she has also been interviewed by Sixth Tone and is currently listed on a database of Greater China female experts.