British journalist Hilary Alexander OBE, and former fashion director of the Daily Telegraph, died on Sunday 5 February, on her 77th birthday, peacefully in London. Hilary was an Honorary President of Graduate Fashion Foundation since 2019 and was the driving strength behind Graduate Fashion Week, securing many of the GFF Lifetime Patrons support for the charity, including Dame Zandra Rhodes and Diane Von Furstenberg.

In 2007, Hilary was honoured with the title Doctor of Design by Nottingham Trent University, and she was awarded an OBE by the late HM The Queen, for services to fashion journalism in 2013. In 2018 she published her book ‘Leopard: Fashion’s Most Powerful Print’ on the history of leopard following her lifelong love of the print.