About this episode

Laura Brown discusses her journey in fashion media and the impact of her firing on her career and the industry.

🎙️ Sponsors du mois🌐 Squarespace — la plateforme no-code, boostée par l’IA, pour créer et développer votre site web tout-en-un.🛡️ MAIF — Épisode Assurance & indépendants : les erreurs qui peuvent vous coûter cher | En partenariat avec la MAIF. — Thanks to Laura for stopping by TheBoldWay. For thirty years, Laura Brown sat at the center of American fashion media. Editor-in-chief of InStyle. Before that, Harper's Bazaar, W, Details. She put Oprah, Jennifer Lawrence and a generation of Hollywood actresses on the cover. Then in February 2022, she was fired on Zoom alongside her entire team. The unwritten rule of her industry: stay silent, say you "decided to move on," save face. She did the opposite. She posted a photo on Instagram with a caption that became a book, then a movement: All the Cool Girls Get Fired, co-written with Kristina O'Neill. Three years on, she runs LB Media, chairs the Creative Council at (RED) — Bono's HIV foundation — and has become one of the sharpest voices on the collapse of legacy media. In this episode, she explains why traditional press is crumbling, how power has migrated from the magazine to the individual, and what she truly learned the day she…

People in this episode

Host: Adrien Garcia

Guest: Laura Brown

Topics covered

• fashion media
• career transitions
• legacy media
• individual empowerment
• public relations

Keywords

• Laura Brown
• fashion media
• All the Cool Girls Get Fired
• legacy media
• career change

Sponsors

Squarespace, MAIF

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: InStyle, Harper's Bazaar, Details, (RED)

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