Kate Young

So I was a fashion market assistant.

When I started working at Vogue, Anna asked in the interview, what do you really want to do?

Because everybody knows that's a temporary position.

Like, you know, there are 20 of us here because you only do it for a few years and then you do something else.

So I wanted to be Dorothy Parker.

And I told her that in the interview.

And then there was like a caption writer job came up and they sent me home with like a spread and said, write the captions.

And I was like, oh, I don't want to do this.

I want to be down, you know, like where Grace had all the racks and they were like packing for Harbor Island.

I was like, I want to be there.

So I told Anna that.

And then the market director needed an assistant and

I didn't want to work there at all.

All those girls sat in a pen and just got yelled at by the fashion editors who were stealing the clothes all day long.

And Anna said, well, if you want to be a stylist, you have to be a market.

You need to do that.

That's foundational.

So I went and did that for...

A long time.

And were you there when... A painfully long time.