New British Vogue Fashion Director

INCOMING British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful announced this morning that he has appointed Venetia Scott as fashion director of the publication. Effective from July 10, Scott replaces Lucinda Chambers, who departs the title later this month.

Venetia Scott - Photographer

Géraldine Saglio - Fashion Editor/Stylist

Damien Boissinot - Hair Stylist

Petros Petrohilos - Makeup Artist

Brenda Abrial - Manicurist

Vanessa Moody - Model

Scott began her career at British Vogue working under then fashion director Grace Coddington, before moving on to work at publications including Vogue Italia, AnOther Magazine, Self Service, The Face, Arena, i-D and Nova - the latter of which she was fashion director. Scott's appointment comes just a few weeks after Lucinda Chambers, the longtime fashion director of British Vogue, announced she was leaving the magazine. 

A lot of stylists are just concerned with the latest trends but that's not what Venetia is about," says Juergen Teller, Scott's former partner and the photographer with whom she created some of the most emulated images of the past 18 years. "Her work doesn't stop with the styling bit. In that respect she's a very rare thing."

Now a crucial component of today's fashion vocabulary, it's hard to imagine that Scott's seemingly "anti-fashion" aesthetic was once considered shocking. But in the late 1980s, her unconventional work (imperfectly beautiful models shot in nondescript locations, wearing clothes that appeared incidental) was dubbed, somewhat caustically, "grunge" and later vilified as "heroin chic".

I still want the clothes to be almost the second thing that you see. I want you to see the girl, and the clothes tell you something more about her," says Scott of her 

 In the mid Noughties, Scott started a successful career as a fashion photographer, which has seen her images appear in British Vogue, American Vogue, Vogue Paris, W, Self Service, AnOther Magazine, Dazed & Confused, POP, i-D, Document Journal, and Purple.