Trinny Woodall
Trinny Woodall
TrinnyWoodall is a British fashion and make-over advisor, designer, television presenter and author. She was privately educated. After ten years working in marketing – Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph. This led to the launch of their own internet fashion-advice business and the release of their first fashion-advice book...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth8 February 1964
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Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.
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So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.
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Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.
My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
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I find it easy to dress other women, but when it comes to myself, I find it very difficult. I used to have no particular interest in clothes. Now I enjoy it more and pay much more care and attention. But I do get it wrong lots of times, and I'm like every other woman: learning from experience.
We all know what we don't like about our bodies.
To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.
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For me as an individual, it's important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.
It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.
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I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.
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When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.
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When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
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There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.
Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.