# Tish Weinstock
**Tish Weinstock** is a London-based writer, editor, and model who serves as contributing beauty editor at British Vogue, covering mental health and wellness, make-up, skincare, hair, and nails.[1](https://www.vogue.com/contributor/tish-weinstock) She is known for a goth-inflected personal style, a career in beauty journalism at i-D, Dazed, and British Vogue, and her 2024 book *How to Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style*.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Current role | Contributing Beauty Editor, British Vogue[1](https://www.vogue.com/contributor/tish-weinstock) |
| Education | History of Art, Oxford University, graduated 2012[3](https://models.com/people/tish-weinstock) |
| Earlier posts | Features editor at i-D; Dazed Beauty with Isamaya Ffrench; Beauty Director at System Magazine from 2022, launching System Beauty[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) • [3](https://models.com/people/tish-weinstock) |
| Book | *How to Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style* (2024)[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) |
| Modeling | Runways for Saks Potts, Chloé (AW25), and Conner Ives; campaigns for Chloé and Vivienne Westwood[4](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tish-weinstock-model-fashion-week) • [2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) |
| Acting debut | Josette in *The Moment*, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival[5](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tish-weinstock-sundance-film-festival-diary) |
| Family | Married to the stylist Tom Guinness; two children, Reuben Wolf and Phoenix Fox[6](https://www.10magazine.com.au/articles/tish-weinstock-spellbound) |
## Editorial career
Weinstock studied art history at Oxford, where she graduated in 2012, and began in magazines through internships at Tank, Garage, Vanity Fair, and finally i-D, where she stayed for several years and left as features editor.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) • [3](https://models.com/people/tish-weinstock) Her move into beauty came from writing on the subject at i-D, where coverage of alternative beauty, body positivity, and self-acceptance was performing well online; she has pointed to figures such as [Grace Jones](https://www.edgepedia.org/grace-jones), David Bowie, and [Siouxsie Sioux](https://www.edgepedia.org/siouxsie-sioux) as earlier disruptors of beauty codes whose imagery was then spreading at a viral pace.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock)
She left i-D to run Dazed beauty with the make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) After having her first child she planned to step back from office work, but her former i-D editor Holly Shackleton, then at Vogue Global Network, recruited her to do beauty there.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) In 2022 she joined System Magazine as Beauty Director to launch its sister title, System Beauty, and she has also contributed to [The Week](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-week), Sunday Times Style, Pop Magazine, AnOther, and Arena Homme+.[3](https://models.com/people/tish-weinstock)
## How to Be a Goth
Weinstock's first book, *How to Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style*, was published in 2024.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) It originated in a British Vogue commission about [Tim Burton](https://www.edgepedia.org/tim-burton)'s *Wednesday*, after which her editor suggested a book on how to be a goth; she initially declined, reluctant to write a manual for a subculture she described as protective of itself, before her husband encouraged her to approach it in an interesting way.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock)
The book traces the goth aesthetic across literature, art, and fashion, from Baudelaire's *Les Fleurs du Mal* (1857) and the artist [Hans Bellmer](https://www.edgepedia.org/hans-bellmer) to the theatrics of [Vivienne Westwood](https://www.edgepedia.org/vivienne-westwood), and profiles women Weinstock calls "goth-coded", including [Louise Brooks](https://www.edgepedia.org/louise-brooks), Michèle Lamy, Siouxsie Sioux, Edith Sitwell, and Miss Havisham.[6](https://www.10magazine.com.au/articles/tish-weinstock-spellbound) • [7](https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/64877/1/goth-book-tish-weinstock-interview?amp=1) It is organized in three sections that follow a woman's life stages, from teenage years through midlife to older age, and it focuses explicitly on women and girls.[6](https://www.10magazine.com.au/articles/tish-weinstock-spellbound) • [8](https://schwarze-szene.net/how-to-be-a-goth-weinstock/) Weinstock has described goth as "a mentality" and argued that there is no single prescriptive way to be a goth.[7](https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/64877/1/goth-book-tish-weinstock-interview?amp=1) A Vogue essay by Weinstock published around the book's release identified a "full-blown gothic resurrection" in fashion, and a Time commentary on the 2024 wave of macabre media cited the book as a bellwether of that revival.[9](https://time.com/7081181/beetlejuice-agatha-all-along-goth-nostalgia/)
## Modeling
Weinstock began modeling in her 30s, an unplanned pivot she has called becoming a "geriatric model". She was persuaded to walk in the Saks Potts show at Copenhagen Fashion Week, which led to campaigns for Chloé and Vivienne Westwood, shoots with the photographer [Juergen Teller](https://www.edgepedia.org/juergen-teller), and, in March 2025, the Chloé autumn/winter 2025 runway in Paris under designer Chemena Kamali.[4](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tish-weinstock-model-fashion-week) • [6](https://www.10magazine.com.au/articles/tish-weinstock-spellbound) She has also walked for Conner Ives, closing one of his shows as the bride, and opened his fall/winter 2026 show in a yellow silk tapestry coat made from hand-embroidered Qing Dynasty textiles.[2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock) • [10](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/luxury/silk-coats-with-fur-trim-2026) She has fronted campaigns for Saks Potts, Le Monde Beryl, Farfetch, and Realisation Par, and has modeled for [Maison Margiela](https://www.edgepedia.org/maison-margiela).[3](https://models.com/people/tish-weinstock) • [2](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock)
## Screen appearance
In January 2026 Weinstock made her acting debut as Josette, a Type A producer for British Vogue, in *The Moment*, a mockumentary conceived by and starring [Charli XCX](https://www.edgepedia.org/charli-xcx) and directed by [Aidan Zamiri](https://www.edgepedia.org/aidan-zamiri), which premiered at the 2026 [Sundance Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/sundance-film-festival), the first edition since the death of founder Robert Redford and the last to be held in Park City.[5](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tish-weinstock-sundance-film-festival-diary)
## Style and vintage collecting
Weinstock's public image centers on gothic dressing, with a uniform of lace dresses, alabaster skin, and jet-black hair.[11](https://roads.co/interview/tish-weinstock/?v=ef6667f9a249) Her vintage collection spans 1930s tea dresses to [Tom Ford](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-ford)-era Gucci, with [John Galliano](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-galliano) pieces featuring heavily, including 1990s slip dresses and a red velvet dress found on Etsy; the obsession began in her teenage years shopping at Buy-Sell-Trade shops and Portobello Market around [Notting Hill](https://www.edgepedia.org/notting-hill).[12](https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/tish-weinstock-vintage-collection) She has appeared on the cover of Luncheon Magazine wearing a Galliano dress, in a shoot by Paolo Roversi.[13](https://tishweinstock.substack.com/about)
She also runs a Substack newsletter, "I'm sick, *coughs*" with Tish Weinstock, offering weekly cultural digests and essays on fashion, beauty, and family life.[13](https://tishweinstock.substack.com/about)
## References
1. [Tish Weinstock Latest Articles, Vogue](https://www.vogue.com/contributor/tish-weinstock)
2. [See Inside Tish Weinstock's Goth-Chic Wardrobe, Who What Wear](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/tish-weinstock)
3. [Tish Weinstock, Writer Profile, models.com](https://models.com/people/tish-weinstock)
4. [How I Accidentally Became A Runway Model In My 30s, British Vogue](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tish-weinstock-model-fashion-week)
5. [5,000 Hours In Glam & Blizzard-Proof Galliano: Tish Weinstock Takes Vogue Backstage At Sundance, British Vogue](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tish-weinstock-sundance-film-festival-diary)
6. [Tish Weinstock: Spellbound, 10 Magazine Australia](https://www.10magazine.com.au/articles/tish-weinstock-spellbound)
7. [Tish Weinstock on finding solace in the darkness: 'Goth is a mentality', Dazed](https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/64877/1/goth-book-tish-weinstock-interview?amp=1)
8. [How to be a Goth (Weinstock), Schwarze-Szene.net](https://schwarze-szene.net/how-to-be-a-goth-weinstock/)
9. [Welcome to Pop Culture's Curiously Defanged Goth Girl Autumn, Time](https://time.com/7081181/beetlejuice-agatha-all-along-goth-nostalgia/)
10. [Every It Girl's Transitional Wardrobe Includes This Elegant Winter-to-Spring Coat Trend, Who What Wear](https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/shopping/luxury/silk-coats-with-fur-trim-2026)
11. [Tish Weinstock, Roads](https://roads.co/interview/tish-weinstock/?v=ef6667f9a249)
12. [Inside Tish Weinstock's Vintage Collection, British Vogue](https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/tish-weinstock-vintage-collection)
13. [About, "I'm sick, *coughs*" with Tish Weinstock, Substack](https://tishweinstock.substack.com/about)
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