Vogue Question Time:Lucinda Chambers

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My first memory of Vogue and my first day are intertwined.I didn't see Vogue as a child or growing up, I wish I had.So when I went to Hanover Square Icouldn't believe how something as magical as this magazine came out of such shabby and higgledy-piggledy offices.And I thought the people looked very ordinary.I thought they would be exotic and eccentric and wear very outlandish clothes.I was working in a small cubicle typing out petty cash forms so I didn't get to meet many people, but I do remember on my first day a fashion assistant came in and was wearing a sweater dress.I couldnt believe it, it seemed too normal.I was wearing a tutu that I had made the night before.In hindsight I looked ridiculous but you have to try things out.

Everyone was very friendly, which I wasn't expecting.I remember I was asked who I knew there and when I said 'Nobody' they didnt really believe me.It was very much friends of friends and god children etc. Thankfully it is very different today, but still friendly.

Two things, I think.One which I have said to every young photographer just starting out, from Tim Walker to Josh Olins, is to find your woman.The one that you want to photograph, she can be lots of different things, behave and dress in various ways, but essentially there will be a core of a girl that you love.

Another piece of advice that was given to me by Mario is that a job is never about the money.You put your heart and soul into it.

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By my desk is my pin-board, which has layers upon layers of pictures that I like.Photographs and snaps and odd bits of string, I just keep adding to it without thinking, so its a scrap-board really.

On my bedside table and all around it are piles of books, lots of them, but I do get through them.This summer, I have read The Girls, A Little Life, The Green Road and The Vegetarian, so they will all have to go and have another life somewhere else.To be replaced.Always looking for good books.

Im not sure that I have a 'style'.I know I like a lot of different things and I love to tinker around with clothes.I do know that I don't look cool.I cant do that.I like too much stuff.I love colour, pattern and textures and to mix them all up.I also think comfort is very underrated.You just cant look stylish if your heels are too high and your jacket is too tight.I love decoration so maybe thats how I would describe how I dress - decoratively.I dress how I do up a room, for me its very much the same thing.Oh, and love earrings.And shoes.And belts.All the bits that go with the clothes!

Where do I begin with this one?I love pretty much everything about my job and I can never quite believe that but its true.I love the people that I work with, they are funny and intelligent and talented.I love the clothes.I really enjoy thinking of an idea, dreaming about it, taking bits out of it and adding on and then getting to realise it.I love the fact there is no repetition, no day is the same.Im always amazed that if and when you are inspired by something or stuff catches your eye or imagination you can somehow weave it into the magazine.

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