Fashion Editor at Vogue and LCF’s very own alumna, Francesca Burns hardly needs an introduction. A CV spanning i-D and Love magazine, Francesca’s career is at the peak of its journalistic success. But how did it come about? In an interview with The Business of Fashion, Francesca talks about her early days at Business Law school before she realised her love for fashion, her views on the growing obsession with street style and why she loves her job.
Judging by her penchant for wearing designers like Meadham Kirchhoff, Louise Gray and Mary Katrantzou, it may come as a surprise that Burns, 31, was a business law student. “I was at Royal Holloway doing business studies and honestly, I never should have been there in the first place. I was the biggest freak you’ve ever seen, walking around in Vivienne Westwood mini-kilts, huge buffalo boots and mohair sweaters,” says Burns, admitting that she landed there because of a boy she was dating. “But while I was at Holloway, my law lecturer, David Bowie, who was as fabulous as his name suggests, said ‘why don’t you go to fashion school?’ I was totally redirected to the London College of Fashion.”
