The journalist, who has been at the helm of the British fashion bible for 20 years, has published her first novel which she says "took just over a-year-and-a-half to write, which everyone tells me is quite a short time although it didn't feel like it at the time".
The book follow the lives of three very different, but very close twenty-something girls, as they try to carve out their lives and careers in 1980's London. It's full of Eighties charm, both the glamorous fashion side and the grungey, underbelly of the times.
Though not drawing directly on her own experience, though one of the characters is a journalist, Shulman used Eighties copies of Vogue and Tatler and her own diaries as inspiration.
Speaking to her guests at the launch, the 52-year-old writer said "right at this point I can't quite understand how I did do it, but at the time I just got on with it. Now is a strange time, the gap between having finished it and it being published is a very weird time - and it feels quite vulnerable - but you can't get the attention I'll get for the book without some criticism, that's the deal."
Questioned about subject matter, she explained "I very specifically wanted to write a book about very ordinary things: it wasn't magic-realism, it wasn't historical, it wasn't fantasy, it wasn't extreme - or about Vogue...Of course, it isn't everybody's reality - it's a certain kind of middle class, London reality - but that's what I wanted to write about, but I'm aware that that's something one can be criticised for too".
Shulman pictured in 2011 with Burberry designer Christopher Bailey
"I hope it's an enjoyable read. I intended it to make quite serious points but in an incredibly light way. My brother described it as 'chicken lit' - old people's chick lit - he hasn't read it actually", Shulman quipped.
Samantha Cameron, Nigella Lawson, Sir Philip Green and Mario Testino all turned up to the event to show their support for Shulman, as well as designers Erdem, Roland Mouret and Burberry's Christopher Bailey.
Speaking about continuing with novel writing, Shulman remarked "I have an idea for a second book so we'll see how this one goes. There goes my summer holiday".
The book will be released in mid-April.
