# Black Coffee and Red Lipstick

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- Book: [Black Coffee and Red Lipstick](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexandra-shulman/black-coffee-and-red-lipstick) ([Black Coffee and Red Lipstick.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexandra-shulman/black-coffee-and-red-lipstick.md))
- Authors: [Alexandra Shulman](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexandra-shulman)
- Publisher: mitchell_beazley
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-4601-782-7
- Published: 2026-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Praise for Alexandra Shulman: 'Self-deprecating and stylish, this is sure to become a classic.' - Vanity Fair 'Alexandra Shulman's style is unaffected, immediate and hilariously dry. She's brilliant at observing everyday feelings in a joy-sparking turn of phrase.' - Helena Bonham Carter Black Coffee and Red Lipstick is a collection of essays that weave ideas about our domestic and daily life - hence the black coffee - with thoughts on style and the way we present ourselves - hence the red lipstick. It combines anecdotes and observations from Alexandra Shulman's 25 years spent editing British Vogue and her current life as a freelance writer and commentator. She draws on her experiences as a magazine editor but also a mother, daughter, sibling, girlfriend, housekeeper and lover of shopping. Alexandra left her job at Vogue in 2017 to embark on a different way of life and while this is in no way a book of self-discovery it does touch on the question of things or patterns of behaviour that make us who we are? The essays will be a mixture of ideas from her quest for the perfect eyeliner, to why picnics are so delightful. How it is that men and women see different things in the home - is there male pattern blindness? - to why our hair matters so much to us. Friendship, siblings, gardening and grey hair will also be explored with Alexandra's characteristic wit and incisiveness.