Glenda Bailey reflects on 32 years as an editor in chief.
She’s definitely going out with a bang. Tonight, Glenda Bailey will cap her reign as editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar with a gala at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs marking the opening of an exhibition devoted to the magazine’s 150-plus years.
Her father’s cancer diagnosis six months out of college was a blow — her mother had predeceased him, also from cancer — and interrupted her stint in fashion forecasting. When her father finally passed, Bailey boarded a bus to London with her husband Stephen Sumner, picked up a payphone upon arrival and dialed up Colin Reeves-Smith at IPC Media. “I must have been very persuasive because he had me in the next day,” she recalled.
I love fashion forecasting. I think that’s what I’m really good at. They used to say that I edited by crystal ball.G.B.: Obviously lighting up the Empire State Building is up there. But I’ve really enjoyed the entire journey. What’s fascinating is how times have changed. One of the greatest fashion photos of all time has got to be “Dovima With Elephants,” and I encouraged the museum to blow it up hugely. Because what many people don’t realize when they see that image, is that we would never, ever do that image today because it’s horrific. You’ll see that the elephants’ legs are bound by chains. You can’t whitewash the past.
What I love about being editor in chief, I very much encourage debate and I love an open-door policy, and I love collaboration. G.B.: I’m hoping they’ll realize that magazines have their place and will continue to grow and develop alongside digital, just as when radio or TV came up, it didn’t put a stop to newspapers. But I do think it acts as a reminder to anybody producing magazines that we all get our news online. So to produce something which is relevant with a monthly format, it has to be memorable. I always say to my team, we’re not just about hemlines, we’re about headlines.
WWD: Would you recommend fashion editing as a career? What advice would you give to young people who want to work in fashion media today?
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