Lucy Maguire is the trends editor at Vogue Business. She started her career in fashion by interning at Roksanda to then landing at Condè Nast as Features Intern and becoming Suzy Menkes Assistant after one month. After 2 years at Vogue International, she started her journey at Vogue Business as Editorial Assistant up to becoming today’s trends editor of the business fashion publication.
In this new episode, we chatted about her career from the beginning, what she learned by working with a fashion industry icon such as Suzy Menkes and her advice on how to get a similar opportunity. Before covering industry trends, Lucy worked in the production team and she shares how this experience was useful to get her current job and how she’s started writing more and more proving she could do so. We also talked about how she comes up with fashion industry analysis and articles, how at Vogue they hire for potential rather than a finished product how the fashion industry is more and more democratize and trends coming beyond the runway. This conversation’s juicy, enjoy it!