The GREAT CATWALK RIP-OFF

Cosmopolitan Fashion Director AMY BANNERMAN has made a career out of spotting next season’s trends. Here, she confides how to create them using past seasons’ cast-offs…

’80s POWER PLAYER I am the fashion director on the UK’s biggest-selling young women’s glossy magazine and I can’t afford to buy the clothes I want to wear. Confusing, right? Maybe you’d imagine that I fly all over the world, sit front row at fashion shows and have discount cards to the best clothes shops? Well, actually I do (and I still can’t afford half the clothes I write about). As I write this, I am preparing to fly to New York for the spring/summer 2019 fashion shows. The streets will be rammed with influencers doing fake walks across the road and hashtagging #insertpriceydesignerhere #spon #livingthedream, etcetera. But guess what? These women aren’t buying what’s on the catwalk either. They’re being loaned or gifted items to promote the latest looks. The only…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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