TIDBTW Guest: Valerie Lea Specht, fashion journalist & stylist, fashion editor at VOGUE Germany
A chat about how to dress for work at VOGUE, aligning your inner self with your outer appearance, and the German design talents we might want to keep an eye on
When you come to my house one of the first things you might notice is that print is not dead to me. Besides the fashion books that I raved about last week, I have a collection of hundreds of magazines, which – despite attempted decluttering over the years – still add up to quite impressive towers. I love my archive of fashion trends and journalism, I love to research for new editors and story angles, and I love my friends who bring back magazines from their travels. Arriving in England, I was greeted by a whole year’s stack of the How To Spend It magazine by the Financial Times – absolute bliss!!
Lately though, and with a decreasing attention span (may it be sleep deprivation, phone behaviour, life), I noticed a strange habit settling in: sometimes I would obsess about a cover or story and then after buying the magazine it would be enough for me to just have it; I would never finish the whole mag. There are exceptions: besid…
