Behind-the-Scenes of Taylor Swift's First Magazine Cover (And More Epic Stories) With Editor/Founder Kelly Atterton
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you've been in the beauty industry for almost 30 years? You have epic stories to share. Kelly Atterton joins us to share what it was like being a beauty editor in the early aughts of magazine publishing — in addition to working at Vanity Fair and Vogue, she served as Allure's Senior West Coast Editor for 17 years under the helm of Linda Wells. Kelly shares an epic WOYF detailing all of the best products she uses, shares about her come-up in an industry where she had no relationships outside of people she met working as a retail associate, and how insane of an experience it was working in publishing before the rise of social media. She also has an incredible story about how she played a part in getting Taylor Swift her first magazine cover. Kelly just launched Rile, a skin + body brand for young teens, that we think even the Glams will be excited about.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Kirby. Hi, Sarah. Welcome to Los Angeles. Welcome Glamgelinos. We hope you stay a while. |
| 0:13.2 | All right, we have one of our favorite people on the pod today. I love this guest because she is an icon in the beauty |
| 0:24.0 | industry. Beauty editor royalty. Thank you. And she's also probably like, stop treating me like I'm |
| 0:31.5 | a hundred years old or something, but that is not what we're saying. That's not what we're saying. |
| 0:36.3 | Kelly Atterton. So Kelly has an amazing |
| 0:40.2 | background in beauty editorial magazines. Maybe you've heard of a few of these publications. Vogue, |
| 0:47.5 | Vanity Fair, and of course, Allure, the Bible, as we like to say around here. Kelly, welcome to Los Angeles. Thank you so much. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for having me. It's very exciting. To echo Kirby, we're not |
| 1:01.9 | trying to make you feel like ancient, but you obviously are like so iconic and someone that we look |
| 1:07.0 | up to. And when we think of how we see our careers, you know, in the next 10, 15 years, |
| 1:14.7 | we're like, I want to be like Kelly when I grow up. Oh, thank you. I can't think of a better |
| 1:19.8 | compliment than that. Thank you so much. That means a lot. Of course. Kelly is here because not only |
| 1:27.2 | does she have amazing stories, one thing I love about |
| 1:29.9 | Kelly is anytime we see her at an event, a breakfast, whatever, she always has an incredible |
| 1:34.7 | story to share. And we want our listeners to hear about the glory days of working at a magazine |
| 1:43.2 | because they were pretty fabulous and pretty insane. |
| 1:45.9 | And she has stories for the books. |
| 1:47.8 | But also, she launched a new brand, Ryle, that plays into a topic that we've been talking a lot about on the podcast, which is teenage skincare obsessions. |
| 2:01.1 | And this is a brand that is focused on teenagers and their needs specifically. |
| 2:07.3 | It's not a brand that's made for a mature set that then the children become obsessed with. |
| 2:12.8 | It truly is targeting the teenagers. |
| 2:15.8 | So we're going to get into all of that. |
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