I write profiles and features.
Everyone has a story. Getting it out of them is the job.
My first published piece was an interview with my best friend – a budding DJ – for a local music mag in our home town, called 247 Devon. Things have come a long way since: he’s headlined Printworks, and I’ve interviewed Raymond Blanc, artists, models and a host of people whose names you won’t know but whose stories you’ll remember. Celebrities or civilians, the method is the same – ask good questions, then actually listen.
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Experience Travel Group wanted a booklet that didn't read like a brochure. Five creators, five ways to see Asia, all written in their voice not mine – now a finalist at the 2026 Silver Marketing Association Awards.
My background as a journalist means I can research any topic. For Goodwood I wrote some pieces of fashion history, delved into topics including why thrift and vintage is making a comeback and what it’s like to be an impersonator and interviewed impersonators, designers, traders and makers.
At London’s newly reopened Museum of the Home, the trends of British domestic life over four centuries are chronicled in evocative detail. But, learns Ellie Fazan, finding the essence of home lies in understanding the feelings and needs that remain very similar down the generations
Ellie Fazan visits former mill town Long Eaton to meet the suppliers of sofas to the Cotswold Company and finds out how they are keeping proud local traditions of upholstery alive by producing quality handcrafted furniture
We meet some of our Fairtrade suppliers and learn how a few simple choices can help to change lives. From chocolate to coffee and quinoa, buying Fairtrade can improve living and working conditions for farmers, support the fight against child slavery and help cope with the challenges of climate change
From a tiny place surrounded by the forests, mountains and lakes of British Columbia, to becoming London’s new queen on the techno scene, the DJ we know as B.Traits has been on quite a journey
There are those for whom the lure of the dressing-up box goes way beyond the odd outfit hire. For these pleasure-seekers, life really is a dress rehearsal…
For Ziggy Lloyd – a sustainable fashion start-up – I hosted a full-day workshop to galvanise the brand.
Meet Polly. She’s the artist who bends herself into weird shapes in abandoned houses in a quest to invert traditional perceptions of the female form.
From being a model in the ‘60s to being a model in one’s 70s, Jan de Villeneuve knows a thing or two about fashion.
Think life moves too fast? Ellie Fazan meets the Londoner who’s developed a technique to slow down time
In suburban Brentford, Ellie Fazan discovers Hen Corner – the back garden that Sara Ward has turned into a mini organic paradise
We’re being dripped on by rain in a studio hidden away on a north London industrial estate. The Hawaiian shirts belie the miserable, and frankly quite British, weather outside.
Meet the water rat who’s swapped life on solid ground for a more buoyant existence on the Thames
Position Gap denim as fashionable, affordable and high quality in the eyes of the global millennial audience.
Raymond Blanc spills the beans on growing up in France, spreading the good-food gospel and how British gastronomy has rediscovered its mojo
The best eco ideas work with what nature gives us, says Ellie Fazan. See the amazing difference that’s already been made by installing solar panels on the roof of the store in Catania, Sicily...
Jon Earl took the concept of tinkering in the shed to a new level when he turned his into a music venue.
Storyteller and party-thrower Bernd Vienna: ‘I love buying piles of fabric to use as outfits or just to drape in the flat as table-cloths or throws.’
Joanna and Sebastian live with their dog Fika and their cats Koko, Antosz and Koksik in the countryside outside Warsaw
There’s nothing like the sound of music for bringing impromptu cheer to the Capital, especially when it’s free
Exploring forbidden territory can land you in hot water. But for those who take the plunge there is a hidden world to explore.
Wakey, wakey! Ellie Fazan follows London's early risers and late-night lovers as they ease us into an exploration of times past, present and future
IN BRIEF
Ellie Fazan is a freelance interview and profile writer based in London. She has interviewed chefs including Raymond Blanc and Alvin Leung, the model Jan de Villeneuve, the artist Polly Penrose and the DJ B.Traits, for national newspapers, magazines and brands. She writes celebrity profiles, founder interviews and real-people features for publications including The Times, The Guardian and OcadoLife.
“I’ve commissioned Ellie on a range of topics, from outdoor pursuits to Fairtrade. She clearly knows my readers and nails the brief every time. One of my go-to writers. ”
— DREW CLAWSON, EDITOR OCADOLIFE MAGAZINE
I’m fast, I write to word count and deadline, and urgent doesn’t scare me. If you’d like to commission an interview or a profile, get in touch.