EDITOR'S LETTER It was a scorching hot and humid August day when I walked into One World Trade Center for my first day at Glamour. I can vividly remember feeling so small entering the Condé Nast elevator to take me to floor 35 and replaying every good early 2000's fashion movie in my mind as the floors increased. I moved to New York just a few days prior and was living out of a suitcase in my tiny six-floor walkup. I landed my first real industry job as a freelance New York Fashion Week assistant at the magazine. I was finally in the Big Apple and felt unstoppable. Over the past decade I have learned a hell of a lot. I have had major career achievements like styling multiple magazine covers, celebrities for the red carpet and being featured in a number of publications and websites. But I have also made countless mistakes, I've had career lows, and I'll be the first to tell you that working in the fashion industry is not always like a movie, and my shoe collection is nothing close to Carrie Bradshaw's. When I started Fashion Fundamentals, it was originally a small blog series on my website to share my life in New York, working in the fashion industry, and any tips and tricks I had learned along the way. I never imagined Fashion Fundamentals would grow beyond this mini blog series into an e-book, national college workshop tour and eventually a digital course and community with hundreds of students across the world. I am so grateful for the community of hard working and passionate creatives I have met through Fashion Fundamentals. In 2021 we are making some changes, and I am so excited to share with you our monthly mentor giveaway launching this month (more details on page 9) Each month I will host a 30-minute mentorship session with one community member.This is a dedicated session to answer any questions (career, fashion, social media, business, etc.) you may have about your career, resume, side hustle or business! I really missed the one-on-one conversations I would have with students when we launched Fashion Fundamentals in 2017, so this year we are taking it back to the basics and focusing on the digital course and the monthly mentorship giveaway! Thank you for your continued support over the past few years and I cannot wait for you to read through this magazine created, written and built by our wonderful community of student writers, ambassadors and interns.
THE FASHION FUNDAMENTALS EDIT 2021
