{{Short description|British journalist (1917–1982)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} <!-- Deleted image removed: thumbnail|Ailsa Garland in 1953 --> '''Ailsa Garland''' (1917&ndash;1982) was a British fashion journalist. She worked for a number of newspapers and magazines, most notably as the editor of British ''Vogue'' from 1960–1964. In addition to her work, she was a broadcaster on television and radio.<ref name=npg>{{cite web|last1=Staff writer|title=Ailsa Mary Garland - Person|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp143189/ailsa-mary-garland|website=National Portrait Gallery|publisher=NPG|accessdate=13 October 2015}}</ref>

Born Ailsa Mary Garland in 1917 in London, she was educated at the La Retraite Convent, London, and Heathneld House, Cardiff.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Author's & Writer's Who's who, Volume 4|date=1960|publisher=Burke's Peerage, Limited}}</ref> She married John Rollit Mason in 1948.<ref name=kay>{{cite book |editor1-last=Kay |editor1-first=Ernest |title=The World Who's who of Women, Volume 3 |date=1975 |publisher=Melrose Press |page=307}}</ref>

From 1947-50, Garland worked as Fashion Editor for the ''Vogue Export Book'', then from 1952-53 she was editor for ''Shopping'' magazine.<ref name=kay/> In 1953 she became fashion editor for the ''Daily Mirror''.<ref name=kay/> She has been listed alongside Alison Adburgham of ''The Guardian'' and Ernestine Carter of ''The Sunday Times'' as one of the most influential British-based fashion journalists of the decade.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Tim |last2=Shaw |first2=David |title=The Fashion Handbook |date=2004 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |location=Hoboken |isbn=9781134521128 |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ETXhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA162}}</ref> In 1960 ''The Spectator'' reported that Garland had left the ''Mirror'' in order to join British ''Vogue'' as part of a greater change of the magazine's focus away from luxury and exclusivity.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitehorn |first1=Katharine |title=Out of Vogue |url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/22nd-april-1960/37/r-oundabout |accessdate=13 October 2015 |work=The Spectator |date=21 April 1960 |page=37}}</ref>

After leaving ''Vogue'' in 1964, Garland became Editor-in-Chief of ''Woman's Journal'', at that time the largest women's magazine in the UK.<ref name=kay/><ref name=brandon>{{cite news |last1=Staff writer |title=Magazine Sends Shivers Down Spines |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3404126/the_brandon_sun/ |accessdate=13 October 2015 |work=The Brandon Sun |via=Newspapers.com |date=8 May 1965}}</ref> In 1965 she launched ''Man's Journal'', an equivalent publication aimed towards the male reader, with designer Hardy Amies as its first guest editor.<ref name=brandon/> She stayed with ''Woman's Journal'' until 1968.<ref name=kay/> During the last couple of years, 1967–68, Garland also edited a magazine called ''Fashion''.<ref name=kay/> As editor of ''Fashion'', Garland was asked to choose the Dress of the Year for 1968, for which she picked out a dress by Jean Muir and shoes by Bally.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dress of the Year |url=http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/galleries/dress-year |website=The Fashion Museum, Bath |publisher=Bath & North East Somerset Council |accessdate=24 September 2015 |archive-date=26 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926095217/http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/galleries/dress-year |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1975 Garland was Fashion Coordinator for IPC Magazines Ltd.<ref name=kay/>

In 1970, Garland published her autobiography, ''Lion's Share''.<ref name=kay/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Garland |first1=Ailsa |title=Lion's share |date=1970 |publisher=Joseph |location=London |isbn=0718105435}}</ref> She died in 1982.<ref name=npg/>

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