The fashion faithful: Charlotte Stockdale

You really wouldn't have Charlotte Stockdale down as the church-going type. For a start, she works as a stylist and image-maker at the very sharpest end of fashion - when we meet she has just taken the reins as fashion director at Garage, an experimental fashion magazine owned by Roman Abramovich's girlfriend, Dasha Zhukova. She lives in possibly the coolest flat in London - 4,400sq ft of quixotically appointed space (her husband of five years is the superstar designer Marc Newson: the bathroom is carved out of one enormous piece of marble). Her best friend is Katie Grand, the editor of Love magazine and (thanks to her intimate connections with brands such as Prada and Louis Vuitton) fashion's de facto head girl. 

But here she is, with just-got-out-of-bed hair, wearing navy satin Céline tracksuit bottoms and Chanel trainers blooming all over with black leather roses, saying, "Sundays always started with getting up and going to church. And now I still go if I'm down in the country. There's a really nice sense of community about it and you see everyone from the village." Who'd have thought? But then Stockdale defies expectations in all sorts of ways. She is a reliably warm and sunny presence in a fashion world that can be uncomfortably uptight. She is as down-to-earth as can be, and yet she is spectacularly posh - her father is Sir Thomas Stockdale, 2nd Baronet of Hoddington (Grand once gave her a T-shirt that read rah rah rah; and her mates call her Stockers). 

Her preferred reading material is the unlikely genre of science fiction. "There's a lot more content in the Game of Thrones books than in the TV series," she tells me authoritatively. And, aged 42, she has two children - Imogen, aged six, and Lucienne, two and a half - but can rock a Chanel mini without the slightest hint of mutton dressing up as anything. It's a cold winter's day when we meet, but all is warm and delightfully fragrant at the 19th-century town house in Marylebone that is the Jo Malone London HQ, where Stockdale has spent the past 18 months as the company's "style editor".Party dress up games with Discount Unique round neck A-line Sleeveless Beaded evening/prom dresses, birthday parties and dressing up for the sweet. In the next room, a team from Korean Harper's Bazaar is setting up a shoot, and a steady stream of couriers comes and goes, loaded with the distinctive Jo Malone cream carrier bags tied up with black ribbon. "We're flying in Korea at the moment," says Stockdale, peering quizzically through double doors at events in the adjoining room. 

Jo Malone London must feel rather lucky to have her on board. It's not as though she's short of things to do.The skirt has widely spaced horizontal strips embroidered in white 2013 Wholesale cheap Sweetheart A-line Beading Blue Tulle Flower Girl Dresses the black skirt and a huge white bow adorning the waistline. Apart from the job at Garage (she took it on once she had left i-D, the style magazine where she was fashion director for two years), she has also been the stylist at Fendi for five years, working on campaigns and catwalk shows with Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Fendi. "Karl draws and comes up with all these brilliant inspirations and ideas, then I just get to play around with them," she says. She has her own office in Pimlico, and employs two full-time staff, including Katy Lyall,If you can't avoid a short timeline check out our Tulle Sweetheart Beaded Flower A-Line Chapel Train Applique Wedding Dress with "Quick Delivery" options to avoid that last-minute stress. who has been her co-stylist for 12 years. "And we have a constant rotation of interns from colleges and schools including my old school, Heathfield."