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Meet our style experts Nicole Smallwood, Ashling McCloy and Jemma Gofton
All week Nicole Smallwood, Ashling McCloy and Jemma Gofton will be serving up top tips and advice on the essential trends this summer.
Nicole Smallwood
As Fashion Merchandise Editor for Marie Claire, Nicole's style jugdgemnts are well informed and certainly safe to trust.
After graduating in 2000 with a fashion degree from Nottingham Trent University Nicole joined The Gap as a visual merchandiser in her hometown of Birmingham. She soon left for the bright lights of London to start a work placement in the fashion department of Marie Claire.
Over the past 4 years at Marie Claire Nicole has worked her way up to Fashion merchandise editor. Her role involves styling celebrities and compiling Marie Claire's popular high street fashion pages, organising shoots, and co-ordinating the team for the fashion shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris.
Ashling McCloy
Ashling is Fashion Editor at Reveal , the hot celebrity and lifestyle weekly magazine. Ashling's hugely popular "Personal Stylist"
column offers indispensible fashion advice every issue - covering subject matter such as how to wear current trends, where to find bangles that actually fit if you're a plus size, how to hide the dreaded VPL, as well as where to get that celeb look.
Since graduating from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 2002, Ashling has worked on both glossy monthly magazines and celebrity weeklies, including Elle, Elle Girl, Company,Celebrity Looks ,more, Red and Closer.
In the last couple of years she has specialised in celebrity fashion shoots, styling everyone from Ruby Wax, Footballer's Wives, Kym Marsh, Kate Lawler, Kate Garraway, Gillian Taylforth, Claire Sweeney,Dynasty's Emma Samms, Melinda Messenger, Jade Goody, and Eastenders' Kim Medcalf to name but a few.
Jemma Gofton
Jemma studied English Literature and Theatre Studies at South Trafford College in Cheshire. After leaving she opted to take a year out and hit upon the idea of modeling. That one-year out turned into 15!!
Jemma has worked as a catwalk model for clients such as Armani, Harvey Nichols and Cosmopolitian. Its while working on commercials that Jemma decided she would like to try her hand at television presenting.
In the last five years she has gone on to present Animal Watch, Inside Out, Lunchtime Live, Running Late and Record of the year with Cat Deeley.
