Victoria "Plum" Sykes (born 4 December 1969) is an English-born fashion-writer, novelist and New York socialite. "Plum" was a childhood nickname (the Victoria plum being a variety of that fruit).
Sykes was born in London, one of six children, and grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent. She has described herself as a "painfully shy" child with, among other things, mousey brown hair and goofy teeth. Among her friends at Ide Hill Church of England primary schoo...
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Victoria "Plum" Sykes (born 4 December 1969) is an English-born fashion-writer, novelist and New York socialite. "Plum" was a childhood nickname (the Victoria plum being a variety of that fruit).
Sykes was born in London, one of six children, and grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent. She has described herself as a "painfully shy" child with, among other things, mousey brown hair and goofy teeth. Among her friends at Ide Hill Church of England primary school was Rowan Pelling (b.1968), who became the editor (or "editrice") of the Erotic Review. From there she went to a private secondary school, Walthamstow Hall, where she was unhappy, and subsequently to Sevenoaks School, an independent boys' school that had begun admitting girls to the sixth form. In 1988 Sykes went up to Worcester College, Oxford, where she graduated in modern history. She has published a short memoir of her unsettling first term at university (Oxford Girl, 2011).
Sykes' mother, Valerie Goad, a dress designer, separated from...
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