Fashion Editor: Yay or Nay?
- Shraddhaa Shetty
- Aug 23, 2017
- 2 min read
So this week I decided to take a fashion career quiz, thereby entrusting complete faith into Teen Vogue’s ability to judge my character and assign me a role in the industry based on questions that could have possibly been constructed by Meg Cabot. To my surprise, I got EDITOR- shoes that I’ve wanted to fill ever since I started weaving my fashion dreams in 2007.
The problem is, the older I grew and the more people I met, that dream grew increasingly distant and unachievable. From hearing rumours and reading articles that revealed the inner workings of the highly demanding fashion print media in India and how largely influenced it is by contacts and status, accompanied with low pay packages for the exploitative working hours leaving employees burned out, rethinking my career objectives seemed more realistic. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for sucking it up and giving my work ethics a 360 degree face-lift like Andrea in The Devil Wears Prada, but the thought of being supported by my parents at 27 or losing a fair chance to a candidate with a relative’s relative at the magazine didn’t appeal to me and I eventually discarded that ambition and proceeded to being CLUELESS.
Funny thing is, the quiz result (however algorithmic and random it may have been) felt like it put a missing puzzle piece back in its place and now all I have to do is channel my inner Anna Dello Russo and pave my way to a publication house. But till I get there, Im going to believe believe and believe. Just like my wise friend Paulo Coelho said in The Alchemist, “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Stay tuned. Stay inspired.
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