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•  How Not to Appear in a Bad Fashion Film
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• A square, high-ceilinged room was lined with benches in an East Village art gallery about ten months ago when Laura Brown donned an emerald green suit. She settled into the front row.
• It may have been a scene from a "poor fashion movie," as Ms. Brown refers to them; she coined the term years ago to describe the archetypal fashion editor: arrogant, egotistical, and downright "Devil Wears Prada"-like.
• The editor-in-chief position at In Style magazine, held by Ms. Brown, had been terminated, according to a day earlier announcement from publisher Dotdash Meredith.
• A fallen editor makes her first public appearance at a fashion show, stomping into a lair of whispers and side-eyes, as steely as ever, as it would have happened in her "B.F.M."
• But Ms. Brown was about as far away from Miranda Priestly's type as a mainstream fashion editor could get. She didn't arrive that day sporting a cool smirk and a pair of sunglasses. She had a cheery smile and waves like the beach. In between looks, she gave some of her seatmates bear hugs and made them laugh.
• She didn't say "I left," which is what fashion people frequently say after being let go, when people inquired about In Style, according to Ms. Brown. Going away "for a while to, like, compose me and then announce my next project" was not something she was interested in doing.
• In addition, she was aware that "the power of magazines is not what it once was." Social media levelled the playing field in the fashion industry many years ago; in today's front row, top editors are typically seated between Instagram stars and well-known brand friends. Ms. Brown was in all three of them in this situation.
• At lunch last month at the distinctly Parisian restaurant Le Voltaire, 48-year-old Ms. Brown, a native of Australia, said, "I knew what equity I had earned. "Being In Style’s editor-in-chief was not what made me valuable.
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• But what influence those fashion magazines once possessed? Ms. Brown, who was raised in Sydney by a single mother, learned how to interact with adults while serving customers as a teenager at a seafood restaurant. She claimed that before the internet, reading magazines was like "springboarding" into other people's worlds. All she ever wanted was to work for magazines.
• When she was 27, she relocated to New York just before September 11, 2001. Even if budgets were already getting down, this was still the era of imperial editors. After only a few weeks on the job at Talk magazine, Ms. Brown learned the publication was closing just as she was finishing up the editing of a Melvin Sokolsky photo shoot of young Hollywood stars. The idea was to have oiled-up actors emerge from eggs.
• After only a few months at W and Details, Ms. Brown started working at Harper's Bazaar in 2005. Glenda Bailey, the magazine's editor at the time, liked dramatic photos of celebrities, such as Rihanna relaxing in a shark's mouth, which she referred to as "coups." More than ten years before Balenciaga's own "Simpsons" take Paris episode, Ms. Brown sent "The Simpsons" to Paris with Linda Evangelista in one of her earliest "coups."
• Ms. Brown started her friendships with some extremely renowned women at Bazaar. Jennifer Aniston described her first interview with Ms. Brown at the Beverly Hills Hotel in an email, saying, "I definitely remember a cheese board with sweaty cheese." (Ms. Brown went on to explain: "This wad of Brie was getting about as sweaty as I was. We simply ignored it all along. Another topic that needed to be addressed was Jennifer Aniston's recent split from Brad Pitt. I recall telling her, "That sucks,"
• These women felt calmer as a result of Ms. Brown's intense enthusiasm, which shifted the balance of power away from them and reduced their sense of alienation. While promoting a fragrance and bringing samples to editors' offices in a Ziploc bag, Michelle Pfeiffer said she met Ms. Brown. "Laura was bouncing on the couch like an 8-year-old, immediately diffusing any nervousness I had," she said.
• When Ms. Brown was 12 years old, Kiernan Shipka met her while Harper's Bazaar was filming a tour of the "Mad Men" actress's upscale wardrobe. The brightest energy just surges through the door while I'm getting ready in my bathroom, Ms. Shipka, now 23 years old, remembered. They ended up in a restaurant last month where they drank Champagne and danced on the booths to Whitney Houston. Around her, there is no pressure to perform, according to Ms. Shipka.
• According to Ms. Brown, becoming friends with these women wasn't difficult. She wanted to make them feel welcome, but they perceived her as a fashion anomaly. A pleasant lady who like spaghetti, Ms. Brown remarked. She wasn't one of the "pointy people," a term she uses to describe a particular type of fashion enthusiast who is intimidating, exclusive, and fixated on punching a "sandwich card of chic."
• Ms. Brown, whose personal uniform tends toward floral blouses and high-waisted, wide-leg jeans, remarked, "I'm wearing this, therefore I am chic. "I am fashionable because I have this body. I am chic because I was invited to this party. That lacks much imagination.
• I used to believe that everyone in New York fashion was travelling on some sort of superhighway when I was younger. more sophisticated, connected, and intelligent than I am. Then you walk into the room and realize, "Oh, no, this is not Mensa," she practically chuckles.
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• After 11 years at Harper's Bazaar, Ms. Brown was appointed editor of In Style in 2016. Emily Ratajkowski appeared on her first cover, donning a white t-shirt with the words "In" and "Style" printed on it, both created by Virgil Abloh. The message, according to Ms. Brown, was: "Everyone is invited to the party." even if the event has an end-of-the-world feel to it, as it did in 2020.
• Nevertheless, the chaos of the pandemic and the racial reckoning inspired Ms. Brown, who leaned toward writing about the work of activists (and friends) like Tarana Burke of Me Too International and Ayo Tometi of Black Lives Matter.
• According to Ms. Brown, who featured Dr. Anthony Fauci, Stacey Abrams, and Deb Haaland on In Style’s print and digital covers throughout 2020 and 2021, travel restrictions meant that instead of attending fashion weeks or advertiser trips, "you could buckle back down to the journalism itself." (When The New York Times questioned nine of the industry's most significant fashion magazines about their racial representation, only In Style was open to comments.)
• However, ownership of In Style changed in November 2021 when Dotdash acquired Meredith. Two months later, Ms. Brown was fired, and the print editions of In Style, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications were discontinued.
• Ms. Brown said she felt relatively "sanguine" and worried about the younger members of her team. She didn't "throw a wobbly," an Australian expression for "freak out," as is commonly believed. In April, in Hawaii, she married 31-year-old writer Brandon Borror-Chappell, whom she had met while working as a waitress at the Sunset Tower Hotel, in front of a large group of well-known acquaintances, while wearing a taffy-pink off-the-shoulder couture Valentino gown.
• So perhaps I'll receive fewer purses, Ms. Brown stated before abruptly becoming grave. "If you've worked hard and earned your stripes, you take it with you. You don't just take off for space, though.
• She was also prepared to some extent. She made the decision to register Laura Brown Media as a business and to begin planning her next steps two years prior.
• Today's actions make those decisions more obvious: Ms. Brown will launch the "So Seen" podcast in early 2023. (Ms. Brown is a consultant or board member for a number of charitable organizations, including this one that promotes positive representations of women in advertising and media.)With Bruna Papandreou, who produced "The Undoing" and "Big Little Lies" on HBO, she is executive producing a movie about the fashion industry. She offers advice to high-end companies. With the French company Sezane, she is developing a collaboration.
• Ms. Brown was, as usual, juggling the roles of host and court jester at a dinner honouring that cooperation in October, performing silly little dances and making quick introductions. Ms. Brown is dubbed "the big connection" by Laura Dern. Nobody closes a conversation with Laura Brown without her saying,
• Do you know whom you need to know?
• For the romantic supper, Sezane had hired a TriBeCa apartment and filled a wall-sized bookcase with numerous brand-new sweaters, which she afterwards offered to each guest. The actors, supermodels, and stylists initially expressed hesitation. However, all pretences were abandoned after Ms. Brown started firing the knits at people like a human T-shirt gun. Sweaters were piled into the arms of women. Nobody took it all that coolly. And that had a very Laura Brownian quality about it.
• She remarked, "I always kind of had a good sense of what fashion worlds I wanted to be in and what ones I didn't. The pointy ones don't especially fascinate me. I like colour, warmth, and compassion.