We’ll have whatever they’re buying: meet the fashion buyers. They're employed for their impeccable taste and unerring instinct for what women will want in their wardrobes each season.
Julia Robson meets Britain's top fashion buyers. BY Julia Robson | 01 September 2012. Rihanna, Naomi Campbell, and Iman Model Balmain by Olivier Rousteing. Bethann Hardison Reintroduces the Black Girls Coalition. Photo: Getty Images Bethann Hardison doesn’t plan to police this season’s catwalks; in fact, she has slight stage fright after receiving this year's CFDA Founders Award for her championing of racial diversity.
“It’s a big one this time,” she says. “It’s one thing when you’re trying to get people to wake up and smell the coffee. But, when the [CFDA] honors you, and everybody knows, and they use your name in their letters, making a special paragraph to say, ‘Remember, Bethann Hardison said ba-da-ba,’ that’s a lot. Rising Star & Captivating Presence. Lupita at a Dinner hosted by Vogue’s Sally Singer for fashion label Sacai, 23rd Oct 2013.
Photo: Pablo Frisk What a pleasure it was to spend time with someone so talented and charismatic. In April 2013, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o was my very first ‘Profile of The Week’ feature where I noted her early accomplishments including In My Genes, a documentary that detailed the plight of people living with Albinism in Kenya, her stage work while she studied at the Yale School of Drama and her leading role in the MTV award-winning drama series Shuga. We’ll have whatever they’re buying: meet the fashion buyers.