The passion behind This Works is Kathy Phillips who having spent seven years as the Health & Beauty Director at VOGUE and then went onto become the International Beauty Director at Conde Nast Asia.
Kathy Phillips launched This Works in April 2004, Kathy wanted to develop a range of high quality skin care products that actually delivered what is says on the bottle. The This Works range of aromatherapy and skin care products do just that.
Despite the designing, creating and on-going marketing of the range, she is still happily associated with British Vogue and writing for them as a Contributing Editor. Her long relationship with Condé Nast began when she was Beauty Director of Tatler and where she also wrote and styled celebrity interviews.
She has styled fashion, beauty editorial and advertising shoots over many years and worked with the very best photographers including Raymond Meier, Carter Smith, Enrique Badelescu, Steven Meisel and Richard Burbridge among others.
Kathy is one of very few journalists who are also involved in the visual side of things, not surprising since she spent four years studying Fashion and History of Art at St Martins School of Art before the start of her career.
Kathy has also worked for many British magazines and newspapers over her career, first as Fashion Editor with her own weekly page for The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday and then for YOU magazine as commissioning editor for the Style pages. Since becoming freelance she has also written for; The Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The “Beauty Guru” column in the Evening Standard and currently the “Beauty Queen” column in the Observer Woman magazine.
She has won several Jasmine Awards, the fragrance industry’s top prize for Journalism and a CEW Lifetime Achiever Award, recognition from the Cosmetics Industry.
Kathy is interested in the serious side of Beauty, Complementary Medicine, Health and Fitness and is often found quizzing doctors, dermatologists, laser specialists, nutritionists and cosmetic surgeons as well as being invited to watch operations and new procedures being performed.
She is a qualified teacher and also practices yoga, having done so for 25 years.