How have you yourself remained such a constant?

and counsel. So it seemed a great opportunity to use a MasterClass to really talk about my own career and particularly my experience with the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund, where we’ve mentored so many young designers, just trying to be helpful to young people thinking about getting into journalism or fashion. and structure. I think that’s why I’ve enjoyed it for so long, because it is always about change, and that’s very inspiring to me and very invigorating, whether it’s finding a new designer or understanding how we can talk to audiences in all these different ways.

I think it’s super important to understand your own vision. If you want to make a comparison, look at a great designer: It’s very interesting to me to see Maria Grazia [Chiuri] at Dior, how she has reestablished the codes of that house ... the way Karl Lagerfeld when he was alive always did at Chanel. He would recast it every season but there was | Vogue editor-in-chief always the jacket, always the bag, always the little black dress. He would just reimagine it and modernise it every season. [Also] I see sometimes when people become successful they stay within a comfort zone ... within quite a small world. What I’ve always tried to do is challenge myself by looking at art, going to the theatre, travelling, walking in the streets, seeing what people are wearing and always bringing in young people to contradict me, tell me about new things and question my choices.

Speaking of theatre, you’re a big fan. What show have you enjoyed lately?

Well, the day of the Victoria Beckham show [in London] I went to see a musical, Six, based on

the six wives of Henry VIII. And it’s completely Spice Girls meets the #MeToo movement. Everyone else in the audience was 16 years old. It was so much fun. Also Betrayal, in New York [with Tom Hiddleston].

“What I’ve always tried to do is challenge myself by looking at art, going to the theatre, travelling...”

You give a lot of advice in this MasterClass. Is there any advice there that stems from some you’ve given to your own daughter?

On the contrary, she’s the one that gives me advice! She’s a very determined young lady who’s always had a very clear vision of who she is and what she wants to do... But I think it’s very important to understand that you don’t have to make up your mind at 18 or 22. It’s important to try different paths. —