10 Facts About Alison Settle

Alison Towers Settle nee Alison Violet de Froideville Fuchs was a British fashion journalist and editor.

Alison Settle wrote for publications including The Observer and The Lady, edited British Vogue from 1926 to 1935, and belonged to government bodies tasked with improving British design and taste.

Alison Settle's archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives.

Alison Settle was the second child of Margaret Campbell Munro and Georg Friedrich Gotthilf Fuchs, Premier Lieutenant of the Landwehr and descendant of the Central European aristocratic family Monod de Froideville.

Alison Settle intended to read History at the University of Oxford, and won a bursary to Somerville College, but was unable to attend because of lack of funds.

In 1914, she became engaged to the barrister Alfred Towers Alison Settle, marrying him four years later in November 1918.

In 1926, Alison Settle became editor of British Vogue, working for Edna Woolman Chase, the American editor-in-chief of the three existing editions of Vogue, staying in her position for the next 9 years.

Alison Settle left Vogue in 1935 under strained circumstances, spending the subsequent year writing the book Clothes Line, published in 1937.

Alison Settle was a fashion columnist for The Lady for 27 years until 1972, which ended after Settle had a serious accident in Paris.

Alison Settle died in Worthing on the autumn of 1980, at 89.