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Susannah Caroline Constantine (born 3 June 1962) is an English fashion journalist, advisor, television presenter, author and designer. Her second book, entitled What Not to Wear, has won her a prestigious British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies.

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Susannah Caroline Constantine (born 3 June 1962) is an award-winning English fashion guru, style advisor, presenter, bestselling fashion author and designer. Constantine was born into a wealthy family, where her father was successful in property and shipping sectors. She was privately educated as a child and went on to date British royalty, David, Viscount Linley, during the 1980s. Constantine has been nvolved in fashion for a long period, originally working in America for Giorgio Armani and then John Galliano in London. She met Trinny Woodall in 1994 who both proceeded to write a weekly fashion column, Ready to Wear. They founded Ready2shop.com, a dot-com fashion advice business, and wrote their first fashion advice book in 2000, Ready 2 Dress, both of which failed. From there they were commissioned to BBC Two to host the style series, What Not to Wear, from 2001 to 2005. She made regular appearances as a style advisor on The Oprah Winfrey Show and following her success on the shows, sh went on to co-host Trinny & Susannah Undress... on ITV in 2006 and Undress the Nation in 2007. Constantine and Woodall have now dressed over 5,000 women. She has co-written many fashion advice books with Woodall, some of which have become bestsellers in the United Kingdom and United States. Her second book, entitled What Not to Wear, has won her a prestigious British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies. It is estimated that her various style advice books have sold 2.5 million copies in Britain and the United States. Constantine and Woodall have designed their own clothing range for Littlewoods which made its debut in 2007, followed by the release of their latest fashion advice book, The Body Shape Bible. Constantine was privately educated at boarding schools including Queen`s Gate School in South Kensington, London and the £20,000-per-year St Mary`s School in Wantage, Oxfordshire which was run by nuns. Her time at St. Mary`s School was described by herself as "miserable" due to her homesickness and insecurity, meaning she was not able to make friends. She was first sent to boarding school at 11 years of age, and has recalled her first night away from home "I sobbed uncontrollably into my pillow." In mid 2007, Constantine spoke about how she received a letter from St Mary`s School, inviting her to come back to the school to talk about her career and success to current pupils. Constantine immediately declined the offer with a four-letter refusal and wrote "No fucking way" on the letter she had received. Her personal assistant was then left to deal with the situation, who wrongly sent the inviting letter with the hand-written sentence by Constantine, back to the school. The boarding school then wrote a shocked letter back, explaining that they will not let Constantine near the school again. Constantine orginally did a year of Montessori training after she had left school but she then moved onto other projects such as studying sculpture in Brussels: "lost my virginity, went a bit mad." commented Constantine. Constantine had taught children for three years, and also worked as a shop girl for Harrolds. She found the job, in her own words, "boring" and even tried shop lifting for more excitement, but she now has admiration for shop girls. Constantine`s love for horses had inspired her to become a mounted policewoman in London, but was deterred when she was required to do four years walking the beat. She wrote a book about present giving, which prompted The Daily Telegraph to write an unpleasant article implying she had never done a day`s work in her life, something which deeply upset her. She has stated defintly "I`ve always worked." She is now best-known as a fashion guru and style advisor, where her fashion career started when she worked for many years under fashion designer Giorgio Armani as a shop girl in America. She later came back to London with the hope of securing a job with Armani, but ended up working for designers such as Richard James, Patrick Cox, Alistair Blair and John Gilliano which gained her an even greater understanding of fashion, providing an in depth knowledge of how a garment progresses for a sketch. She then started working with the British Brain and Spine Foundation and consequently met the sports editor of The Daily Telegraph. Whilst doing a piece for GMTV, he asked Constantine to report the women`s World Cup Final in cricket on finding out that it was her passion. She proceeded to write about cars and then fashion. In 1994 she first met Trinny Woodall at a party hosted by David, Viscount Linley. Though they did not like each other at first, the two women proceeded to write Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for The Daily Telegraph which ran successfully for seven years. The column promoted affordable high-street fashion and they used themselves to illustrate which clothing suited which figure. Constantine and Woodall also became the co-founders o

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Ready 2 Dress: How to Have Style Without Following the Fashion [2000] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Not to Wear [2002] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Not to Wear: The Rules [2004] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Not to Wear: For Every Occasion [2004] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What You Wear Can Change Your Life [2004] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), What Your Clothes Say About You [2005] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Trinny & Susannah: The Survival Guide [2006] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Trinny & Susannah Take on America: What Your Clothes Say About You [2006] (HarperCollins Publishers), The Body Shape Bible [2007] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

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