LAUREN WATERMAN

The greatest piece of advice New Yorkbased writer and editor Lauren has been given is

‘you will never make it as a writer if you are worried about seeming nosy’. She started out with internships at ELLE US and Rolling Stone before landing a job as an assistant at Vogue, where she went on to launch Teen Vogue before going freelance in 2006. ‘Surviving as a freelance writer for more than a decade is my greatest career achievement to date,’ she says.

She works from her home in Brooklyn, but when travelling to a meeting always takes a book for the subway: ‘I’m currently reading The Idiot by Elif Batuman. I never want to finish it, so

I’m reading it very slowly.’ Lauren writes about the power of Rihanna on page 176.