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Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Encore Episode: Laura Brown on Fashion and Hard Work

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released in September 2019.  Laura has since gone on to found her own multi-platform media company, LB Media. Laura Brown came up in the 80’s – a period devoid of the internet and Instagram, where fashion inspiration came almost exclusively in the form of magazines. To make things worse for a young fashionista living in Australia, as Laura did, those magazines arrived three months after their release date. Laura was hungry for the glitz and the glam, and made it her goal to one day work and live in the heart of the fashion world. After working a few stints at magazines in Australia and London, Laura arrived in New York. Finding herself at a lavish Marc Jacobs show within days of moving there, Laura finally felt the pulse of the life she had so long been yearning for. After working her way up to Features at Harper’s, she was then hired as Editor in Chief at InStyle. In the three years since, Laura has revitalized the magazine, injecting new life into it, forever showcasing her love of fashion, layouts, and a good dose of creative, hard work. Thanks for listening!  Don't forget to order Rebecca's new book, Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success. Follow Superwomen on Instagram. Big Ideas The excitement and satisfaction of pulling off creative, hard work. Advice for those interested in working at a magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's guest on Superwomen is Laura Brown, currently the editor-in-chief of InStyle magazine.

0:05.3

I think In-Style magazine is known throughout the entire universe as one of the most incredible

0:10.1

fashion magazines there is. Before that, she was at Harper's Bazaar. And what I love about Laura

0:14.6

is she's strong, she's powerful, and man, she gets what she wants. And to top it off,

0:24.1

she's really, really, really funny, and I love her sense of humor.

0:26.8

Take a listen to Laura Brown on Super Women.

0:33.6

So this is a one-off because we're in Laura Brown's office, the editor-in-chief of Instiles. Oh, yes, so am I.

0:35.2

Yes, yes, you're here where all the magic happens.

0:38.0

I'm looking at a cover of Miss Aniston, which is gorgeous.

0:41.7

Yes, I'm staring at six covers of Jennifer Aniston and one cover of Megan Rapino and Sue Bird.

0:49.8

So it's for the beauty issue, and I just think it's the most perfect mix of ladies so which is what I try to do at the old in style. So yes, this is the October issue and then we have to do November and then December and then January and February and we just have to keep doing it. It's a lot. It's exhausting. Can we go back to when you were a young, a young lady. Oh, a young lady, yes.

1:11.5

And I was much of a lady, but I was certainly young.

1:14.8

Can you start telling me what made you want to get into magazines?

1:19.9

Yes, I always say delusions of grandeur.

1:22.4

So you thought you were going to be in the limo with everything?

1:25.7

No, it wasn't even that.

1:26.5

It was more just like I wanted to be.

1:28.7

No, I didn't want to like, you know, I was like nine years old. I didn't know there was such a thing as a Hampton's house or anything. But like I wanted to be in it. I wanted to be like where the fashion was happening and where the glamour was and where the glamour was and where the movies were. And it was because I was brought up in Australia.

1:44.5

And in Australia when I was a kid, which was like kind of, you know, late, early 80s, we didn't have internet, we didn't have anything. And so everything was sort of happening somewhere else. And that's a blessing on the coast of Australia, you know, especially what's changed obviously completely now with internet and social media and everything else. But it was, so I was

2:01.4

sort of hungry for an experience or to be close to things that I found glamorous, I guess. And not,

2:07.9

again, a cliche glamour. I think glamour was being able to see something with your own eyes when

2:12.2

it sort of happened and see creativity kind of manifest itself on a big stage. And we just didn't

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