9 August 2010

\\\ MY LITTLE PIECE OF VOGUE ///


Vogue UK April 2004 Cover Shoot


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This time last year I was working in the fashion department at Vogue. A whole month of hard work, ringing phones, countless trips to Tony's and small, private heart attacks. A whole month of fascination, inspiration and clumsily-concealed fear whenever Alexandra Shulman walked into your lift. My favourite jobs of all were the ones when I was sent down to the Conde Nast archives to research shoot ideas for one of the fashion editors. Many moons since I have dreamt of one day being once again allowed to enter those hallowed halls of wonder.
No such glamorous happenings this summer unfortunately, by no fault but mine own of course. I am instead spending this summer archiving my own 'magazine'; the twenty years of my life in loose pages. I have been battling thousands of photographs, tickets from the Budapest metro from years ago, hundreds of magazine tears which have graced my walls in four different bedrooms of mine over the last 18months... I'm a picture-person, a book-person, a goddamn hoarder if I'm being frank. Bags of old favourites have been lugged across town in the name of charity (I even crossed the road with a girl wearing one of my cast-offs the other day; I didn't mention it.)Above are a collection of lost treasures which I picked up at Vogue during the august office clear-out. These polaroids from April 2004's cover shoot featuring Lily Cole and Gemma Ward were doomed for the bin, but I couldn't let them go. In my eyes, they're a little piece of fashion history (besides, how much would you pay for Kate Moss Vogue polaroids from back in the day on ebay?) I'm not going to ebay them, but hoard them along with everything else. And maybe in twenty years time, I can return them to the Conde Nast archives, and I'll walk those hallowed halls again.

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13 comments:

bmach said...

I've worked in Vogue too, but in Spain. I loved your post!!

XX

Unknown said...

great post, girl:)

xx
www.mydailyfashiondosis.blogspot.com

Briana Le & Merissa Ren said...

ah! i'm so jealous. these are incredible. gemma is a pinnacle of fashion history!


xxmerissa
merbri.blogspot.com

Hannah said...

These polaroids are amazing.

x

shona said...

WOW! BEST POST YET! TRES EXCITING!

She Wears, She Shares said...

I'd love to be there! What an experience!

Dry Clean Only said...

love the pics.

the nyanzi report said...

Good strategy.
Keep 'em.

Beautiful Things said...

awesome polaroids!

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Paint it Black said...

Fabulous experience and great polaroids what amazing memories you must have xoxo

JESSICA LANDER said...

I'd die for that experience, you're so lucky

Unknown said...

oh that must have been such an amazing month xxxxx

ALICE MARGO said...

love love love this, great post!

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