Sarajane Hoare is a British fashion journalist, director, and stylist who, since the 1980s has worked for British ''Vogue'', '' Vanity Fair'', and '' Harper's Bazaar''. She has been instrumental in developing the career of photographer

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, shoe designer

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, and journalist Kate Phelan.

Early life and education

Hoare is British by birth. She studied at the

Chelsea College of Arts Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation. It offers further and higher educat ...

, London.

Career

Hoare has worked as a fashion director for ''

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'', British ''Vogue'', and '' Glamour''; and as an editor-at-large for '' Harper's Bazaar'' and contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair''. In 2010 she was invited to join Town & Country as a guest fashion director for the 2011 Spring issue. ''

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'' has described her as a "safari enthusiast",Vogue: The Shoe
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'' has described her work as "safari imagery". She is credited with discovering the fashion photographer

, with whom she worked for seventeen years. Another fashion photographer,

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, cited Hoare and other editors as instrumental in making his career. In 1991 Hoare took on the young

(co-founder of

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) as an assistant, commenting later that Mellon's eye for a quality shoe had been obvious even then. As editor and representative of ''Vanity Fair'', Hoare was approached by the Fashion Museum, Bath and asked to select the defining look of 2004 for their

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collection. She chose a long evening gown by

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for Yves Saint Laurent in a Chinese dragon-printed silk, which had been worn on the

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to that year's

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s. Hoare published her first book, ''Talking Fashion'', in 2002, a monograph on the fashion industry.

References

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