Samira Nasr: “Real inclusion means anyone can follow their dreams”
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In 2020, Samira Nasr became Editor-in-Chief of Harper’s Bazaar, the first-ever woman of colour to hold the position in the magazine’s 154 year history.
The appointment, whilst joyful, also prompted tough reflection about racism and responsibility. How can a business based on exclusivity throw its doors open to all?
Nasr’s insights on what real inclusion looks like in fashion — and her hopes for the industry as it emerges from the pandemic — are featured in the third episode of The BoF Show, now streaming on Bloomberg QuickTake.
Here, we share the full interview with Nasr exclusively on The BoF Podcast.
Watch the episode three of The BoF Show, “Belonging: The Business Case for Diversity”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. Welcome to the Bof |
| 0:06.8 | podcast. It's Friday, October 29th. Today, we released episode three of the Bof show, a new immersive |
| 0:14.3 | video series now streaming on Bloomberg Quick Take, which includes an interview with Samira Nasser, |
| 0:19.7 | who was named editor-in-chief of |
| 0:21.5 | Harper's Bazaar in 2020, becoming the first woman of color to hold a position in the magazine's |
| 0:27.6 | 154-year history. During Ote Couture Week in Paris, Samira and I met to discuss what real |
| 0:35.1 | inclusion looks like in fashion, the purpose of au couture, and her hopes |
| 0:39.6 | for a more human fashion industry as we emerge from the pandemic. To watch the latest episode |
| 0:45.4 | of the BOF show on Belonging, please find the link in our episode notes. Now, here's my full |
| 0:51.5 | interview with Sameranassar exclusively on the BOF podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | So I wanted to start with a personal question. Okay. Because it's been, yeah, it's been a crazy |
| 1:01.4 | 16 months, right? And we were all here in Paris 16 months ago. Yeah. And then we all went |
| 1:08.0 | home and then... And then the world changed and everything we know changed. |
| 1:11.9 | So what changed for you personally? |
| 1:14.4 | You're going to get me to cry on the first question. |
| 1:16.4 | What changed for me personally? |
| 1:19.1 | I... |
| 1:20.5 | Okay, I'm going to start personally before professionally. |
| 1:23.8 | I'd never had this much time with my son. |
| 1:26.7 | I'd never been this still in my life. I'd never had this much time with my son. I'd never been this still in my life. |
| 1:29.8 | I'd never been forced to just stop and stay in my community, my immediate community, not my |
| 1:37.4 | extended community. I mean, I didn't leave my four block radius for three months, maybe four |
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