Marie-Claire Chappet
Marie-Claire Chappet is a features journalist and contributing editor at Harper's Bazaar whose coverage links fashion, culture and women’s working lives through reported features, interviews and service-led guides. She focuses on how women navigate work, relationships and personal style, using workplace stories, television and book coverage, and trend pieces to build a joined-up picture of contemporary life. With more than fifteen years of magazine and newspaper experience, she writes across print and digital with an emphasis on arts, social trends, lifestyle, travel and fashion.
Bazaar At Work, leadership and equal parenting
At Harper's Bazaar, Chappet plays a central role in the Bazaar At Work franchise, covering all aspects of working life from office behaviour to the importance of switching off. Her features in this strand profile female leaders and emerging voices, often using their careers to explore broader questions about power, ambition and workplace culture. Recent coverage includes a piece on the inaugural Equal Parenting Week and the rise in single men choosing to become parents, using expert commentary to argue for change in paternity leave and workplace policy. She extends this focus into live programming, moderating events such as International Women's Day galas and business panels, where she hosts conversations about resilience, entrepreneurship and bold leadership for Bazaar’s audience.
Her reporting in this area relies on interviews with senior figures and specialists, paired with data points and case studies that make workplace debates concrete. She often frames work not as a siloed topic but as part of a wider life, connecting professional pressures with caregiving, partnership and mental health in ways that give stories about policy and leadership a human register.
TV thrillers, literary salons and pop culture
Chappet writes widely on arts and culture for Harper's Bazaar, compiling monthly TV highlights and tracking new series, from comedy thrillers to prestige dramas. Her recent guides include round-ups of the best comedy TV thrillers to watch if viewers have already binged a hit show, and lists of nine unmissable series for the season, positioning streaming choices alongside mainstream television.
She also spotlights “scandalous, celebrity-filled” dramas that have moved quietly onto platforms such as Netflix, framing them in relation to earlier series like Call My Agent! and Scandal to help readers place new shows within familiar tonal territory.
Beyond television, she covers literary prizes and salons, interviewing authors such as Women’s Prize winners and hosting Bazaar’s literary events.
Her profiles of figures including Barbara Kingsolver and Rachel Clarke treat books as part of a larger cultural moment, focusing on how their work speaks to social change, care and the ethics of storytelling. Chappet’s pop-cultural essays extend to memoirs and music icons, as in her analysis of Britney Spears’s book, where she reads the narrative as a rehabilitation of a public figure and an exploration of tragedy and self-perception. Throughout this strand, her voice is analytical but accessible, grounding criticism in plot, character and context while keeping the emphasis on how culture reflects women’s lives.
Friendships, weddings and modern relationships
Chappet’s features on relationships and emotional life draw on her interest in social trends and wellbeing, often combining personal reflection with expert insight.
She has written about the drama of a partner revealing “the worst thing they’ve ever done,” using a therapist’s perspective to explore trust, rupture and whether relationships can survive a shocking confession. In another piece, she examines wedding anxiety and the rise of “wedding therapists,” using her own experience as a bride to map how one third of young couples are turning to mental health professionals to navigate the pressures of their big day.
Her work on friendship frames platonic bonds as a structural support rather than a soft extra, arguing that society celebrates commitment in romantic relationships while overlooking the value of friendships as a core asset.
She also writes about identity and self-image, as in her essay on embracing natural curly hair after years of straightening, where she sets her own journey against broader beauty trends and the visibility of big curls in contemporary culture. Taken together, these stories show a consistent interest in how women manage expectations around love, marriage, friendship and appearance, and how professional help, community and personal boundary-setting can shift those narratives.
Matchy-matchy accessories, French style and luxury travel
On the fashion beat, Chappet writes trend-led service pieces that decode how stylish women dress, often through specific lenses such as French style or seasonal accessory shifts. Her fashion coverage includes guides to the “matchy-matchy” accessories trend, where shoes and bags are paired in prim, ladylike ways with a twist, and shopping edits that highlight animal-print bags as the defining accessories of the season.
In work focusing on French style, she has explored how stylish French women rely on a small group of elegant skirt shapes for summer, using that structure to curate shoppable selections and translate a particular aesthetic into concrete wardrobe choices.
She extends this sensibility into lifestyle and travel, producing luxury city-break guides such as a weekend in Seville framed by ornate fountains, curious peacocks and a focus on doing the city “in style.” Her pieces on “the most stylish pubs” and event coverage from fashion weeks and gala after-parties show a consistent interest in the social spaces around style, from what people wear to where they gather. Chappet’s fashion and lifestyle work blends atmospheric scene-setting with practical recommendations, giving readers both the mood of a trend or place and a clear sense of how to participate, whether through specific garments, beauty products or destinations.
Across these strands, Chappet’s distinguishing strength is the way she treats fashion, work and culture as interconnected, using interviews, essays and curated lists to show how women build lives that are professionally ambitious, culturally engaged and stylistically expressive.
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Adam Cheung
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Alexandra Fullerton
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Alexandria Dale
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Alice Reynolds
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