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Alexa Chung: How To Get A Job At Vogue

Photo Credits: Vogue
Photo Credits: Vogue

Model and TV presenter Alexa Chung has done a two piece documentary for British fashion magazine Vogue in which she describes her experience working for the magazine and how did she end up there. As a contributing editor of the magazine, it seems like she has the perfect position to do an inside story like this one. Vogue is celebrating its 100th year, so there couldn’t be a better time to do a piece like this.

Throughout the series she talks to all the people who make the fashion Bible come out of the press every month, and she does this in her characteristic quirky manner, making the audience and the interviewed person feel relaxed.

She lets the audience know what a mysterious creative director of a fashion magazine actually does when she interviews Jaime Perlman. She also sheds light on just how important the social media has become in the recent years for the fashion industry.

Walking through the Vogue office she reveals that it was her dream to work for the magazine when she was a young girl, but she didn’t know how to get there.

Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, tells the story of how Alexa Chung started working for Vogue and explains what were the skills needed in this day and age to work for his magazine. Viewers learn a lot about the Vogue’s intern programme for young people and what it takes to plan out a perfect photo shoot.

It’s not just pretty clothes and models, it’s a whole army of people making sure that everything goes according to plan and as it should. After watching this series, you’ll start seeing the fashion industry in more serious way. Young people all over the world now have a much clearer picture of what it takes to work for a magazine such as Vogue.

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