Marion Hume

Marion Hume is a British fashion journalist based in London. Her career spans the UK, the US and Australia. She has interviewed Yves Saint Laurent, Diana Vreeland, Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs and Giorgio Armani as well as chief executives of global fashion businesses including LVMH, Richemont, Kering , Chanel and Max Mara Group. She is also the senior consultant for The Ethical Fashion Initiative of the United Nations agency, ITC , which works with designers including Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney to harness the power of fashion as a vehicle out of poverty for some of the worlds most marginalized artisans. She is the International Fashion Editor of The Australian Financial Review and the curator of the AFRs Bespoke, a celebration of creative collaboration at The Sydney Opera House. She writes for The Financial Times and The Saturday Telegraph Magazine.

Hume was born in England of Scottish parents and raised in Chalfont St Giles, a pretty village known for its associations with the 17th century poet, John Milton. Her father, Kenneth Hume, was a designer her mother Rena, an art teacher. She attended Exeter University, where she majored in English literature and was awarded the Deans Commendation and where she began reporting for the campus newspaper, Signature and broadcasting on the campus radio station. She began her career when she won Honey Magazines Young Journalist Award in 1985. During the 1980s she worked at the trade titles, Mens Wear and Fashion Weekly and then at the UK office of Fairchild Publications W magazine for which she interviewed Sir Douglas Fairbanks. She joined The Sunday Times in 1988, reporting from Paris, Milan and New York. She also covered the beginnings of Spanish fashion weeks in Madrid and Barcelona and was probably the first international journalist to visit a thenfledgling company in La Coruna called Ind

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