Meet our summer intern Morgan. She is only 16 but she’s probably more die-hard about fashion than you are. Let her prove it to you with her new series, “Confessions of a Crazed Fashion Fan.” In Morgan’s own words, “Stuck in public school in a small town, every time I read an article or looked at a blog (400 a day to be exact) I felt closer to the world I so desperately craved to be in. My motto quickly became “One day…” I would repeat it to myself every time I read about an amazing event on Style.com or watched a Prabal Gurung fashion show. “One day that will be me.” So what happened when my far-off fantasies started to become a reality? Read on.
My first exposure to the high fashion world beyond the glossy pages of magazines came on a trip to New York City with my Girl Scout troop.
My fellow scouts may having dreaming about spotting a celebrity–but I was crossing my fingers for an editor sighting. And then it happened. On the subway. There he was, through the smudged window of a train: Joe Zee, the Creative Director of ELLE magazine. I recognized him from my late nights studying his “A to Zee” column, and after shoving my group of girls–who thought it was Jay-Z–onto that car, I sat down to stare (literally, stare…he definitely noticed). Though I never worked up the courage to talk him that day, my obsession adoration for the magazine editor only grew over the years.
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