How the work—and words—of designer Phoebe Philo are helping one editor navigate troubled times.
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As a teenager in a sleepy coastal town, I looked to Phoebe Philo as a lifeline to a world of honest beauty and glamour with substance. Her designs, soundtracks, and reference images inspired me; her words, notoriously rare, guided me.
In the fall of 2014, I was studying in London and, as the new kid, I felt a bit lost and insecure. Alone in my dorm room, I logged on to watch Style.com’s video of the spring 2015 Celine collection. And as jackhammers tore up the street in the alley below, there was Phoebe, in her soothing voice, speaking about how vulnerability, uncertainty, and risk had shaped the collection. “Being vulnerable is a really important part of being creative,” she said.
Uncertainty has become the norm. We are at the mercy of the news reports and text alerts. Phoebe dared to be open to the unknown. She spoke of the contemporary “obsession with certainty, our obsession with needing to know an outcome,” but knew that answers are to be found only by taking things “one day after the other.” Heroffered pieces to help you get through unscripted days.
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