Education
Tilberis attended Malvern Girls College.
Tilberis attended Malvern Girls College.
She then went to Leicester Polytechnic where as a fashion student, she was expelled for having a man in her room. She then tried to go to Jacob Kramer Art College in Leeds. Andrew Tilberis, was an art tutor, and looked over her portfolio for admission.
In 1967, British Vogue held a contest requiring three essays.
Liz was the runner-up and began an internship there, making tea, picking up dress pins, and ironing for fashion shoots for 25 pounds per week. Beatrix Miller, then editor-in-chief, noticed how nice and enthusiastic Liz was, and was promoted to fashion assistant in 1970.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Liz began fertility treatments to try to conceive. After 20 years at British Vogue, she was offered a lucrative job in City as part of Ralph Lauren"s design team in 1987.
She sold her house, packed up, and was about to leave for the United States.
Anna Wintour, the then-editor, suddenly called Liz into her office, and informed her that she was moving to to become the new editor of House & Garden. Wintour offered her job to Tilberis, who accepted. Its circulation began to rise under her leadership and she said, "My staff are respectful rather than frightened."
In 1992, Tilberis moved to City and took the helm of fashion institution Harper"s Bazaar.
In December 1993, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 46.
She strongly believed that her use of fertility drugs caused the disease. She spent the next seven years at Bazaar balancing chemotherapy and revitalizing the 125-year-old magazine.
Tilberis served as President of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund from 1997 until her death in 1999. She escorted Diana, Princess of Wales on one of her last visits to, even though Tilberis herself was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for her cancer.
Diana would telephone and write Tilberis to give her words of comfort and encouragement, until her own death in a car accident on 31 August 1997.
Tilberis died on 21 April 1999 in City from Ovarian cancer. Tributes to her were in the June 1999 issue and the entire July 1999 issue of Bazaar.