Vogue Comes to Boston

Thursday night, an exclusive group from Boston's fashion scene shuffled into the Museum of Fine Arts to hear Vogue's International Editor at Large, Hamish Bowles, speak on behalf of his good friend, photographer Mario Testino. Testino's work has been on display in the MFA since the fall, and will remain at the museum until February 3. Bowles talked all about working with Testino since the early 1980s and traveling to places such as Morocco, Peru, Brazil, Egypt, Spain, and France alongside him for the purpose of Vogue photo shoots. Together, these two men traveled the globe and captured exotic locales for the glossy pages of vogue.

After Hamish Bowles concluded his presentation on Vogue and Mario Testino, audience members gathered with the Vogue superstar for cocktails, appetizers and lots of conversation. Among the guests were bloggers, Amy Connolly, Emily Geaman, Courtney Mirenzi, Erin Gates, Liana Krupp, and Marisa Berensen. Also in attendance was one of the city's most renowned stylists, Christina Pierce. It was lovely to catch up with these ladies and discuss our opinions of Vogue. We were all in awe of the company we were in, as we admire nothing much more than we admire Vogue and its talented staff. Not long into the reception, I decided to approach Hamish Bowles about my dreams of pursuing a career in fashion. And no, everyone, I do not want to be a designer. I aspire to work in PR and advertising, and perhaps write if I ever have that option. I simply introduced myself and said, "Hi my name is Zoe Malliaros and I'm a local blogger. I'm just a senior in high school." From there, Bowles and his assistant were both shocked. "Only a senior?" They both said out loud. I explained how I want to work in PR and emerge as a well-known professional. Mr. Bowles's most important piece of advise, "First of all, you must attend University." Luckily, this is in my plans! It was a pleasure to talk to sure a successful man about how I want to achieve things similar to what he's done. It's refreshing to meet such encouraging individuals. I left the MFA with a smile on my face, and day dreaming about how maybe someday people would come to an event to listen to me speak about working at Vogue and traveling with fashion photographers. Oh yes, I'm a dreamer. For now, I'm just going to keep working hard in school so I can get into my top college like Hamish Bowles suggested, and then I'll take it from there.

Until next time.

xx, ZM