Serena Sinclair Lesley

{{Short description|American journalist}}

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| birth_name = Serena Dunn Kamper{{Cite web|title=Serena Dunn Lesley Obituary (1926 - 2016) The Oregonian|url=https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/serena-lesley-obituary?id=21470953|access-date=2021-10-21|website=Legacy.com}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|3|29}}

| birth_place = Santa Barbara, CA

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|1|6|1926|3|29}}

| death_place = Tualatin, OR

| occupation = Journalist

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| education = Wellesley College
Principia College

| subject = Travel, fashion, youthquake

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| spouse = Kenneth Sinclair
Earl Lesley{{Cite web|title=Serena Dunn Lesley Obituary (1926 - 2016) The Oregonian|url=https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/serena-lesley-obituary?id=21470953|access-date=2021-10-21|website=Legacy.com}}

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Serena Dunn Lesley (née Kamper; formerly Sinclair; March 29, 1926 – January 6, 2016) was an American journalist who was the longest serving fashion editor at the London The Daily Telegraph.{{Cite web|title = Serena Sinclair, fashion editor - obituary|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12129824/Serena-Sinclair-fashion-editor-obituary.html|website = Telegraph.co.uk| date=29 January 2016 |access-date = 2016-02-03}} Writing under the name Serena Sinclair, Lesley covered travel and fashion at The Telegraph from 1960 to 1984. She broadcast on BBC radio and television, and wrote for the Christian Science Monitor.

Lesley was known for her reporting about the revolution referred to as youthquake that occurred in fashion beginning in the 1960s{{Cite news|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19730401&id=RPgeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Lo0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2816,13864&hl=en|title = Serena, Nora Report Counter-Revolution|last = Hart|first = Jeffrey|date = 1973-04-01|work = Sarasota Journal|access-date = 2016-02-03|via = googlenews.com}} and for it received Fashion Writer Of The Year Award in 1970. Her writing also reflected a new view of the consumer with more emphasis on creating a stylish wardrobe while living on a budget.