Tells you all you need to know about that industry.
Vouge fashion editor:
From Wikipedia
Lynn Yaeger is a contributing fashion editor[2] to Vogue.com and a contributing writer[3] to Vogue. She is a former fashion reporter for The Village Voice, having worked for the paper for 30 years. Her column, “Elements of Style”, was renamed “Frock Star” in February 2007. Yaeger is also a regular contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker[1], The Atlantic[4], Style Magazine, the American edition of Vogue magazine, Travel & Leisure, and countless antiques & collectibles dealers.
Yaeger is also a fashion columnist for Full Frontal Fashion, a style website in association with Sundance Channel. She is also the curator for the vintage section of fashion retail website yoox.com.[5]
When I was in high school, my goal was to be a fashion designer in New York, but it seemed that every avenue to get there was blocked. That rejection was my protection.