Visualising the dream role / Take action
Having decided I wanted to work full time at a magazine, I was back at my favourite book store (see 'Keep Up With The Latest Trends')...
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The life and soul / Be seen in all the right places
Always be seen to be having fun. What’s more alluring than a girl who looks like she’s having the time of her life? Your vocal chords may...
Know your worth / Speak up
Working for next to nothing is par for the course when you’re starting out in the fashion industry, but that doesn’t mean being taken...
Fake that confidence until you make that confidence
Working for supermodels and designers as a downtrodden assistant is never the end goal. Make the connections while in the role and use...
Take a chance / Nail that CV
Having been fired from another job (see 'Fired, but fabulous'), each morning I went to the same coffee shop on Portobello Road to scour...
Place yourself in the right environment / How to land that job
Work for peanuts if it means you get to mix with the right people. This is not to say you’re not earning any money at all, it just means...
How to launch a career when you start with nothing
During lockdown I had time to think. We all did. Think, write, clear cupboards. While clearing one particularly overwhelmed cupboard, I...
In an increasingly woke world, is sheep mentality causing us to lose sight of the truth?
Another viral campaign screeched its way across social media last month. As feeds filled with black and white images, mostly beautiful...
Villa d'Este / Travel review
Villa d’Este had always been on a wish list of places to travel to, but with the intense schedule of fashion shows and visiting friends...
The one where my TV and film career ended
Through a chance meeting, I had landed a job as an entertainment reporter. Janet Street Porter had been tasked with creating a new...
Beirut / The one with the corrupt model competition
I had been working at Premier Models for a few months when an email came through from a small production company in Lebanon. They were...