PIPPA VOSPER, WRITER, PRESENTER + BRAND CONSULTANT

Recognised for her refreshingly honest writing around pregnancy and baby loss, the former fashion editor has spoken and written about everything from fertility to fashion. She opens up about grief, how she remains authentically herself and her fashion tastes.



“It was important to share my grief with other women.”

When I lost my son, nobody was speaking about pregnancy loss in the way I had experienced it. Going public with such a private experience was hard, of course, but I thought if I write about it in the most raw way that I’m comfortable with, it might help other women. 

If you lose a pregnancy, I believe that you are automatically connected to somebody else who understands and has lived through that experience. That has been one of the only positives to come out of such a traumatic experience - finding this connection with so many other women that I wouldn’t have found had I not lost my son.

“The person I present to the world never changes.”


I’m just always me. That’s the only way you can be - particularly with a subject concerning women’s health or grief. You can’t put on a different persona or project what you’re trying to say in an inauthentic way. You just have to speak or write with honesty. That’s the only way people are truly going to trust and connect with you.

“I’ve never been one to put on a full ‘look’.”

I live in white jeans - boyfriend fit teamed with a white t-shirt and a good cashmere knit. That’s become my signature. People probably think I never change my clothes because I’m always in a different variation of the same thing. 

Now that my daughter is four years old and not a baby any longer, I can go back to my white jeans without panicking that I’ll end up with food all over my clothes - and if it does, that’s what stain remover is for.

“I think my style is best described as ‘Eighties with a masculine feel’.”

I’m such a fan of the Eighties. Not so much the shoulder pads and leg warmers, more the ‘Eighties with a masculine feel’ look. High-waisted loose fit jeans with a denim shirt tucked in and a white t-shirt underneath. Think Nick Kamen in the Levi’s commercial laundrette.