Louise Roe for FAULT Issue 12
Louise Roe was shot by Jennifer Endom at Apartment 58 in Soho, London.
Styled by Marika Page
Styling Assistance by Maya Hambro
Hair and Make-up by Rachel Wood at artistsbytimothyprimo.com
Manicure by Jessica Geleration
Tanning by St.Tropez
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Something of a journalistic polymath, Louise Roe has not only written for Vogue.com, Glamour and Men’s Health, she has also moved seamlessly into television and presentation work. A supporter of up- and-coming designers and a perennial feature on best-dressed lists, Roe is now bringing high fashion to the masses with her shoe and bag collections for Stylistpick.com (in addition to transforming the aesthetics of girls sorely lacking in confidence in the new season of her MTV series Plain Jane). FAULT caught up with her to find out how she feels about adding “makeover queen”to her extensive list of talents.
FAULT: Having worked both in traditional journalism and as a television presenter, which do you prefer?
LOUISE: That’s such a difficult question, because I love them both, and I would never want to give one up. But I think TV, because there’s so much variety: Live television is such an adrenaline rush, and I just enjoy the immediacy of it…
Do you see writing as something you can do alongside your work on TV?
Yeah, I think the two go hand-in-hand, actually. I’m the Fashion editor-at-large of Glamour magazine in the U.S., so I write a column for them, and I’m always coming up with ideas. I [also] write a column for Men’s Health in the U.K., which is launching next month. So I’m still writing a lot!
Do you think that being fashionable is important for a good self-image?
Yes, but not if you’re being a fashion victim and copying everything on the runways and trying to mould yourself into something that you’re not. But if you’re picking parts of trends that suit you and that you’re comfortable with, then definitely. Actually, on the show that I host [Plain Jane], you see that the transformation after we put the girls in new clothes is enormous…
Earring by Lulu Frost