Amy Mackelden
Amy Mackelden covers fashion through the lens of celebrity style and royal narratives, turning high-profile outfits and dynastic storylines into clear trends and shopping takeaways. Her work at Marie Claire combines a news desk sensibility with a sharp eye for what people actually wear, connecting red-carpet looks, royal wardrobes, and viral accessories to the wider fashion conversation. Her portfolio spans rapid-turn celebrity and royal coverage, detailed outfit breakdowns, and longer arcs around how fame, power, and illness shape the way people present themselves.
Celebrity Style, Suede Trends, and Lingerie Moments
Mackelden’s recent fashion pieces focus on how specific celebrity looks crystallise seasonal trends, often zeroing in on one outfit as a case study for a broader shift in style. In her coverage of Zoë Kravitz incorporating fall 2026’s suede trend into a hot pants and ballet flats outfit, she uses a single appearance to explain how suede is moving from outerwear into more playful, leg-baring silhouettes.
Her Hunter Schafer story takes an unexpected purple-and-red color combination and frames it as part of a wider movement toward bold, high-contrast pairing for fall, anchoring the analysis in what the ‘Euphoria’ star actually wore on a night out. She applies a similar approach to Michelle Obama’s suede bag while attending Céline Dion’s Paris residency, treating a polished accessories choice as proof that a particular bag shape and material has become a defining trend of the season.
On the accessories side, her coverage of Jennifer Lopez embracing Hailey Bieber’s jelly shoe–sneaker hybrid, and of Lopez leaning into a runway-ready Valentino look with one of spring 2027’s biggest bag trends, breaks down how A-list styling moves from the front row and paparazzi shots into everyday wear. In the Margot Robbie lingerie set story, she pushes beyond red carpet dressing to argue that a silky Dôen co-ord signals lingerie-inspired pieces becoming central to summer 2026 daywear, rather than sitting solely in the bedroom or under layers.
Across these pieces, Mackelden’s tone is direct and descriptive: she names designers and specific items, notes colors, fabrics, and cuts, and then ties them to “trend” language that makes the coverage actionable without sliding into shopping-copy cliché. She writes in the present tense and treats celebrity outfits as news events, often positioning them alongside other recent looks so readers can see how one appearance fits into a wider pattern.
The result is fashion coverage that feels fast and timely but still precise, rooted in concrete wardrobe details rather than vague mood or inspiration.
Princess Diana’s Legacy and Modern Royal Coverage
Mackelden’s royal reporting forms a parallel strand of her work, where she uses both fashion and family dynamics to show how the House of Windsor remains a live cultural force. Her pieces on Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer, including coverage of his new book and his statement that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are “being destroyed daily” by tabloids, foreground how commentary from royal insiders reframes public understanding of the couple’s treatment and Diana’s example. In stories about why Queen Elizabeth II became “furious” with Princess Diana after a private conversation, and about Philip having “overruled” Charles at Diana’s funeral, she revisits key moments in recent royal history through fresh reporting and quoted experts.
She also tracks how Princess Diana’s legacy continues through fashion, such as pieces on Princess Charlene styling a Diana-inspired bag and on modern royal accessories that echo the late princess’s choices, drawing a straight line from past images to current wardrobes.
Her royal work sits firmly in the news category, built around new books, interviews, public appearances, and documentary revelations, but she consistently notes clothing and styling as part of the story. Whether writing up a royal fan interaction where William jokes “Stop, you’ll make me blush,” or detailing how Queen Elizabeth’s employee revealed “intimate details” about palace life, she places small personal moments alongside the symbolism of dress and setting. That mix makes her a fit for stories where royal family narratives and what the royals wear are inseparable, and where a fashion angle benefits from awareness of the institution’s wider dynamics.
Weekend Editing, Entertainment News, and Cross‑Outlet Work
Beyond individual stories, Mackelden brings deep desk experience to her coverage. She is the weekend editor at Marie Claire and a contributing editor, covering celebrity and royal family news while keeping fashion and style central to how those beats are told. Before her current role, she spent three years as the weekend editor at Harper’s BAZAAR, covering breaking celebrity and entertainment news, royal stories, fashion, beauty, and politics.
She previously spent a year as joint weekend editor across Marie Claire, ELLE, and Harper’s BAZAAR, and two years as an entertainment writer at Bustle, which gives her a long track record of turning around culture and style stories on tight timelines.
Her bylines extend across a wide range of outlets, including Cosmopolitan, People, The Independent, HelloGiggles, Biography, Shondaland, Best Products, New Statesman, Heat, xoJane, and The Guardian, with additional work syndicated by titles such as Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Delish, Oprah Daily, Country Living, and Women’s Health. She has interviewed celebrities including Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Chastain, the cast of Selling Sunset, Emma Thompson, Jessica Alba, and Penn Badgley, which underpins her ability to weave direct quotes and firsthand perspective into style and entertainment pieces.
Her 2015 academic paper delivered at Kimposium, the Kardashian conference, further signals a sustained interest in how fame, reality television, and image-making intersect.
Health, Wellness, and Disability Storytelling
Alongside fashion, celebrity, and royals, Mackelden writes extensively on health and wellness, particularly around chronic illness and disability. Her health bylines include Forbes, SingleCare, Healthline, MS Society, MS Trust, ZocDoc, PillPack, HelloFlo, Greatist, Bezzy, and Byrdie, where she covers medical experiences, patient perspectives, and everyday management of long-term conditions. She co-edited the poetry collection The Emma Press Anthology of Illness, which adds a literary layer to her documentation of illness and care.
Public profiles describe her as a freelance writer, editor, and disability activist, indicating that this strand of work is an ongoing part of her professional identity rather than an occasional sideline.
Together, these threads - fast-turn celebrity style, royal narratives with fashion inflection, seasoned weekend editing, and lived-experience health writing - make Mackelden a distinctive voice on the fashion beat. She approaches clothes as evidence in wider stories about power, fame, and the body, and she has the newsroom background to deliver those pieces quickly while keeping them grounded in specific garments, accessories, and historical context.
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