Barnard College puts out a great fashion mag called Hoot, and you might recognize the name of one of the contributors to their latest issue: It’s Cathy Horyn. The Times critic is a Barnard alum and she wrote a thoughtful piece for Hoot about how she got where she is today, and shared her advice to future fashion writers. She also has a very specific idea for the kind of blog you should start.
Horyn says she always knew she wanted to be a newspaper reporter but “in the post-Watergate era, many young people had the same idea,” so she went to J-school at Medill at Northwestern and started work as a copygirl at the Chicago bureau of the AP on the weekends. After graduating, Horyn applied to 75 newspapers and “received two positive replies,” one of which was from The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. She took the job and covered the school board. Doesn’t sound like the path to a career in fashion journalism, right? Well, that’s kind of Horyn’s point:
