Lucy Sykes

Lucy Sykes Rellie is a British-American entrepreneur, fashion executive, consultant and socialite based in New York City. She is most known for being the fashion director of Marie Claire from 2001 to 2007 and the fashion director of Rent the Runway from 2011 to 2012. After working in the fashion industry for over sixteen years, Sykes Rellie co-authored her first novel entitled The Knockoff in 2015. Early life and family Sykes Rellie was born in London, and grew up as one of six children in Sevenoaks, Kent. Her mother, Valerie Goad, was a dress designer. Sykes Rellie's grandfather, Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), whom she knew as "Fat Grandpa" or "F.G.", was a friend and official biographer (1975) of the novelist Evelyn Waugh and son of the diplomat Sir Mark Sykes, sixth baronet (1869–1919), associated with the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, by which Britain and France provided for the partition of the Ottoman Empire after the end of the First World War. An 18th century forebear, the second baronet, Sir Christopher Sykes (1749–1801), was a major figure in the enclosure movement that seized ownership of common land for private use. In 1985 Sykes Rellie left Kent to attend the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.