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Marion Hume (born 3 July 1962) is a screenwriter, TV writer and fashion journalist based in
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, England. She is best known for having been Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, Australia.


Career


1980s

Hume started her fashion writing career at the dawn of the AIDS crisis in
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. With Roger Walker-Dack, she co-founded Fashion Acts, one of the first fundraisers for HIV/AIDS causes, working in association with the
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. Fashion Acts generated funds by the sale of photographs donated by talents from across the industry including Helmut Newton and Linda McCartney. Hume was the Fashion Writer for
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. The Look edit In 1989 Hume was tagged by independent filmmakers, Freelance Film Partners as the insider they needed for a
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six-part series called The Look. For the next two years, she worked on the series and also appeared in 5 of the 6 episodes. Interview subjects included
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,
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,  Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren,
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 and Christian Lacroix. The episode entitled Runway was the first to chart the evolution of the Supermodel. Yves Saint Laurent refused to be interviewed for the hour-long documentary about him, although close associates including
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 and  Betty Catroux did speak on his behalf and Saint Laurent himself was filmed backstage at his haute couture shows and at his 30th Fashion Birthday at the
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, Paris. The Look has been broadcast all over the world. In 2021, 30 years on, Hume was invited to address the students of
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on the making of the series


1990s

Concurrently, Hume was the launch fashion editor of the UK edition of ''Esquire'' (1990). From 1993 to 1996, Hume was fashion editor of ''
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'', during which time the fashion coverage expanded in both the daily and the ''Independent'' on Sunday. Her profiles included Patsy from Ab Fab, aka
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, Lauren Hutton,
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,
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and the photographers Steven Meisel and
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. She reviewed Alexander McQueen’s first show. A review of a Chanel show entitled "No Way to treat a Lady" started a feud with
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, with Hume praised for "not being part of the 'conspiracy of silence'; for her professionalism, her integrity and her independence." In 1996 Hume joined The
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, filing weekly fashion updates. The same year, she was the writer and associate producer of
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special on
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(season 20, episode 12, 1997) directed by Nigel Wattis, hosted by Melvyn Bragg.


Vogue Australia

In 1997 Hume was Editor of
Vogue Australia ''Vogue'' ''Australia'' is the Australian edition of ''Vogue'' magazine. ''Vogue Australia'' became the 4th edition of Vogue in 1959 after '' Vogue'', ''British Vogue'' and ''Vogue Paris''. Prior to becoming a stand-alone issue, the Australian edi ...
for just under two years, managing a team which included today's Editor, Edwina McCann and Creative Director, Jill Davison. After her tenure at
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came to an abrupt and well-documented end, she was called back to Vogue USA. There, she served as acting features director. Hume then left to join Harper’s Bazaar USA as contributing editor. She appeared in Vogue Australia’s 60th anniversary issue, December 2019.


Australian Financial Review

Hume served as International Fashion Editor for the AFR for 14 years during which the magazine won best in class at Australia’s media awards seven times.
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allowed unprecedented access in his first-ever interview on sustainable fashion (2018).


Activism

Hume served for five years as the Senior Consultant for the United Nations’ ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative linking those at the top of the fashion chain - including Giorgio Armani and
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- to marginalised artisans in the slums of Nairobi. She served with the United Nations Foundation designing a fund generator using contemporary art by
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which raised over US$6 million in a single night for health programs for the under-5s. During London’s first lockdown in the Spring of 2020, she founded Siren Call, which linked together those across the fashion industry who would never normally collaborate - from Browns to Primark - to supply non-PPE clothing essentials to more than 8,000 paramedics and other front-line staff serving Greater London.


Lee Miller

An expert on the American WW2 Photojournalist,
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, she appears in “Lee Miller. A Life on the Front Line” first broadcast on BBC 2 in May 2020 which has since won two BAFTA awards.


Books

* ''
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'', Rizzoli 2015 () * ''Black on White: opinions and reflections about design ''(contributor, edited by Jose Antonia Gimenez)'', ''Hiatus, 2013 (). * ''The Fashion Pack, '' Penguin, 2005 ().Do my claws look big in this?
The Age, 2005 * ''The Cutting Edge: 50 years of British Fashion ''(contributor, edited by Amy de La Haye), The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1998 ().


Television documentaries

* ''The South Bank Show special:
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'', season 20, episode 12, 1997. * ''The Look,''
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, 1992. * ''The BoF Show with Imran Amed,'' Bloomberg Quicktake, 2021.


References

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