Grace Woodward began her career at Agent Provocateur, but has since progressed into styling and writing and is now the woman to know in fashion.

She was fashion director on last year's The X Factor, has recently taken her seat once again on the judging panel of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model, and has also launched her own show - Chick Fix, in which she helps groups of women with their personal and professional problems.

Chick Fix is on Tuesdays at 9pm on Sky Living HD.

Tell us a bit about Chick Fix – how did the idea come about?

It really is unique. I think I'd be quite safe in saying I don't think there's ever been a show like this before.

It's really nice to see female friendships and the way women help each other in everyday lives reflected on TV because these days, it can be a bit sensationalist and this show has a really great vibe about it.

The idea genuinely came from a want to have that shown on TV by a bunch of women who all question, 'Why am I not seeing how we actually are on TV?'.

They're strangers when they come to the house and it's incredible to see how quickly they bond. In the workplace, the media (seems to) focus on how women don't help each other, and these women are going to a retreat and all of that is put aside and, actually, it's really nice to see that everybody helps each other in this situation.

It’s your first time presenting. How did you feel about taking the role on?

It's really exciting. I was really nervous actually. I spent 10 years creating images for celebrities and being behind the camera so I've never really had to think about what I look like on camera.

It's been a really fast learning curve for me, but one that's been really, really exciting. This is the way forward for me; I see so many opportunities to bring brilliant things about women and fashion and style to TV that I'm really looking forward to making my own mark with my own show, hopefully sometime soon.

What are your thoughts about the whole Cheryl Cole/ X Factor saga? Do you think she played a risky game with her style choices over in America?

All of us, if we go somewhere else, we want to fit in and to me, I think it looked like Cheryl was going, 'I'm going to do a big, bouncy Hollywood look' and actually I think that she was doing it anyway, she didn't really need to.

But anybody would be nervous, transferring countries and into the biggest job potentially in the whole wide world. I think she's a very conscientious, hard-working girl and I think that she was just trying to fit in.

Do you think she might be brought back in to the UK X Factor at some point?

I really, really have no idea. You know what - Simon and the whole X Factor team like to keep people on their toes and keep everyone guessing so who knows what will crop up.

Are you working on the show again this year?

I don't know yet. I mean last time, I found out two weeks before we started. Like I said, I think they just like to keep everybody, everybody, on their toes.

The X Factor's been an amazing platform for me. I think last year was a fantastic year for TV, for me, and I think it's genuinely a move that people want to see more real fashion on it, not makeover shows, but real fashion.

That's why they got me involved with The X Factor because they wanted a proper representation of fashion on there. I'm really excited with moving forward with that and I want to bring my vision of fashion.

Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model is now on our screens, can you give anything away about that?

I don't want to be a spoiler now, do I?! Let me think... The funniest thing to watch will be Julien Macdonald's outfits.

It's been brilliant because Sky has taken the considered risk of letting us, as judges, out and we have chosen the girls this time in a new format of open auditions. So really it's all our responsibility this time!

I think there genuinely is a desire to see why the judges make the decisions they do. Now, they get that opportunity to see more of our personalities and then maybe understand, with our different disciplines and backgrounds, why we make the decisions that we do.

Do you get on well with your fellow judges?

Yeah, absolutely. Julien and I, because we are currently working in the industry, we have creative differences but you would with anybody and it actually makes it more interesting. We can both put real points forward which everybody needs to consider so it's not just one-sided.

When you're considering a girl to go forward, Julien will always be looking from a catwalk perspective, whereas when I cast girls, it can be for absolutely anything, so it's about balancing out the points of view. But I think it's really important that the viewer sees there is all sorts to consider, not just whether she's a pretty face or not.

What’s coming up for you for the rest of the year?

It's been such a whirlwind introduction to TV. I'm learning so much so I want to sit down and obviously pencil my plans for world domination!