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Getting into the world of journalism in all about working your way from the bottom to the top. As soon as you have got your first job you can start working your way up the ranks and move from magazines to magazines.Olivia said:oh please.. somebody respond to this thread, because i have the exact same question as modern_romance.
prosperk said:It's funny that Marion Hume is speaking there. I remember how she used to be slagged off in Oz when she was Editor-in-Chief of Australian Vogue. She put noses out of joint as soon as she stepped off the plane from England by writing harsh but honest editorials about the state of the industry in Australia. Now they're inviting her as a top speaker at Melbourne Fashion Week. Ain't that always the way...
I'll call her when she gets back 'topside' and ask her about the seminar. If I get anything likely to be helpful to any of you, I'll post it here as well. J J Picart is also well worth listening to. He's forgotten more about the business than most people even know.
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^I agree that the best fashion writing is often found in newspapers. Magazines seem to deteriorate into fawning far to often with either their subjects or their critiques.
Its not really a critical view if you love everything and/or focus only on the positive.
Thank you for all your commentary prosperk - it really is intriguing. Its good to know that people from different backgrounds can still make it in journalism. I find it especially heartening as I'm from a film and art history background originally
I've only written poetry until now.
Anyone has tips/idea's on how to start practicing writing articles(fashion)?
They don't love everything. They love the presents, the freebies, the kickbacks, the bribes they get from designers and houses for pretending, year after year, that the king's new clothes are lovely. An eight grand handbag - or two - plus a week in a Marrakesh thalasso and a juicy styling contract are just some of the reasons many magazine fashion editors and their bosses never write anything nasty. Even the writers who do try to get truth into the pages will be gagged for the sake of keeping the advertisers on board.
Newspaper writers are less hampered by this but, to be fair to their colleagues in the glossies, newspaper fashion writers are mean because they don't tend to get freebies and backhanders...because newspapers don't really carry that much fashion advertising. Were the same writers working for glossies, most of them would toe the line and smoke the pole.