The Vogue Factor: The Inside Story Of Fashion's Most Illustrious Magazine - Plot & Excerpts
One was to get out of the Sutherland Shire, the conservative, soporific area south of Sydney, Australia, where I grew up. Two was to write. I found the conformity in my hometown stifling, and so decided that I should move to what appeared to be the least conformist suburb in Sydney: Kings Cross. In 1979 I broke the news to my mother at the age of seventeen that I was going to move into my own apartment. Although she had reservations about the seedy neighborhood I had chosen, Mum knew I could take care of myself. My adventurous streak told me that travel rather than university was what I needed, so I set my sights on getting out of there as soon as I could. I applied for a job advertised in the newspaper and became a stockbroking clerk. It was a boom time for the market, and a number of lucrative bonuses enabled me to travel in Europe for one year at the age of eighteen, then again at twenty-one. No backpacks—I would like to clarify that straight away. No hippie stuff. Always a suitcase.
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