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Welcome to The Shilocks in Conversation podcast with me, Charlotte Collins. This week I'm joined by Claire Richardson.

Claire is one of the most respected and sought-after names in the fashion industry, a stylist who's worked with some of its biggest brands, including M. Haleigh, and Emmys,iger and Calvin Klein, and publications such as Vogue

Paris, The Last Magazine, and the M. LeMont. She's also an advocate of slow fashion and the founder

of resale platform, Relux, on a mission to change consumer behaviour and create a more

sustainable fashion environment. Relux authenticate every item and takes care of the process

from photographing and listing through to selling and shipment. Welcome, Claire. Thank you for having me. It's so lovely to have you. There's, I mean, there's so much we want to talk about relux and slow fashion, but can we just talk a little bit about your career first? Because it's, it's a starry enough career without getting onto the whole business that you've started. So how did you get started? Why styling? I would like to give you

some sort of amazing tale, but I slightly fell into it. I used to live in abroad in Korea in Japan.

And I want to say that that's why being around these amazing cultures, but I actually think it was

when I discovered magazines,

maybe 14, 15, and thought they were this sort of amazing fantasy escapism.

And that's when I started to become interested in clothes.

And my family has no interest in fashion whatsoever.

And I think to my dad's horror that I wanted to pursue fashion.

And it was when actually I found out about a Central St. Martin's course degree

that I knew it was for me.

And I was a shop girl.

And I would save my money to get up to London to do work

experience at various newspapers and magazines through my summer holidays and then that led the way

to St. Martins and by slowly by sort of editing by doing experience, thinking I wanted to be a writer,

realised I was terrible at journalism. And that's how it all sort of led into styling. So it was

sort of accidental as well. What was your first big break? I was assisting various people.

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