14 Brutally Honest Quotes From Fired Vogue Editor

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Jul 10, 2017 6:00 AM EDT

Lucinda Chambers worked for British Vogue for more than three decades before she was unceremoniously fired in the middle of a regime change. Chambers didn't hold back days later when she spoke with Vestoj about the situation. The interview was controversial enough to get it pulled from the site. It has since been reposted in full. Here are 15 quotes that you don't see every day. 


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    Text - "Truth be told, I haven't read Vogue in years" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "The June cover with Alexa Chung in a stupid Michael Kors T- shirt is crap. He's a big advertiser so I knew why I had to do it. I knew it was cheesy when I was doing it, and I did it anyway. Ok, whatever. But there were others... There were others that were great". Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "The clothes are just irrelevant for most people - so ridiculously expensive" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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  • 05
    Text - "If you want good results, you have to support people. You don't get the best out of anyone by making them feel insecure or nervous. Ultimately, that way of treating people is only about control. If you make someone feel nervous, you've got them. But in my view, you've got them in the wrong way. You've got them in a state of anxiety. I'm thinking of one fashion editor in particular: it's his modus operandi. He will wrong-foot you and wrong-foot you, and have everyone going, 'Shit, shit, s
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    Text - "You're not allowed to fail in fashion especially in this age of social media, when everything is about leading a successful, amazing life. Nobody today is allowed to fail, instead the prospect causes anxiety and terror. But why can't we celebrate failure? After all, it helps us grow and develop" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "I don't want to be the person who puts on a brave face and tells everyone, 'Oh, I decidedto leave the company,' when everyone knows you were really fired. There's too much smoke and mirrors in the industry as it is. And anyway, I didn't leave. I was fired" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "In fashion you can go far if you look fantastic and confident no one wants to be the one to say ... but they're crap.' Honestly Anja, you can go quite far just with that. Fashion is full of anxious people. No one wants to be the one missing out" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "The problem is that people worked then, we've got to make it work now.' But fashion is an greedy. They think, 'It are alchemy: it's the right person at the right company at the right time". Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "The problem is that people are greedy. They think, 'It worked then, we've got to make it work now.' But fashion is an alchemy: it's the right person at the right company at the right time". Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "Fashion can chew you up and spit you out" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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  • 12
    Text - "Big companies demand so much more from their designers we've seen the casualties. It's really hard. Those designers are going to have drink problems, they're going to have drug problems. They're going to have nervous breakdowns. It's too much to ask a designer to do eight, or in some cases sixteen, collections a year. The designers do it, but they do it badly and then they're out. They fail in a very public way. How do you then get the confidence to say I will go back in and do it again?
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    Text - "Most people who leave Vogue end up feeling that they're lesser than, and the fact is that you're never bigger than the company you work for" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "There are very few fashion magazines that make you feel empowered. Most leave you totally anxiety-ridden, for not having the right kind of dinner party, setting the table in the right kind of way or meeting the right kind of people" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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    Text - "It's a shame that magazines have lost the authority they once had. They've stopped being useful" Lucinda Chambers, former Vogue editor
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