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ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE
The
Fashion
Industry
By Ailsa Moon
(Ashdown House)
In May, Zoë Souter, Director of
Marketing at the Condé Nast
College of Fashion and Design, came
to speak to interested Fifth and Sixth
Formers about career possibilities
in the fashion world.
Fashion and the industry behind it often
bring about thoughts of slender girls, mad
but brilliant designers, and a business that
runs solely on creativity and beauty. It
quickly became clear that, like any other
business, more than just designers and
models are needed in order to keep this
industry thriving. After all, how can one
forget a legend like Anna Wintour, someone
as fierce and ferocious as she is brilliant? Ms
Wintour certainly doesn’t spend her days
pinning fabric on models nor is she is the
face of a brand (at least, not yet). No, she
is the editor-in-chief of American
Vogue
, a
magazine dependent on journalists, graphic
designers and marketers. The fashion
industry is just that, and no industry runs on
one level alone. During this talk, it became
clear that the fashion world is not only
Left, Emilia Clarke OSE makes the front cover
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