Sarajane Hoare

Sarajane Hoare is a British fashion journalist, director, and stylist who, since the 1980s has worked for British Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. She has been instrumental in developing the career of photographer Herb Ritts, shoe designer Tamara Mellon, and journalist Kate Phelan.

Early life and education

Hoare is British by birth.^[1] She studied at the Chelsea College of Arts, London.^[2]

Career

Hoare has worked as a fashion director for The Observer, British Vogue, and Glamour; and as an editor-at-large for Harper's Bazaar and contributing editor to Vanity Fair. In 2010 she was invited to join Town & Country as a guest fashion director for the 2011 Spring issue.^[3]

Vogue has described her as a "safari enthusiast",^[4] and the Financial Times has described her work as "safari imagery".^[5] She is credited with discovering the fashion photographer Herb Ritts,^[6] with whom she worked for seventeen years.^[7] Another fashion photographer, Mario Testino, cited Hoare and other editors as instrumental in making his career.^[8] In 1991 Hoare took on the young Tamara Mellon (co-founder of Jimmy Choo) as an assistant, commenting later that Mellon's eye for a quality shoe had been obvious even then.^[9]

As editor and representative of Vanity Fair, Hoare was approached by the Fashion Museum, Bath and asked to select the defining look of 2004 for their Dress of the Year collection. She chose a long evening gown by Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent in a Chinese dragon-printed silk, which had been worn on the red carpet by Nicole Kidman to that year's Tony Awards.^[10]

Hoare published her first book, Talking Fashion, in 2002, a monograph on the fashion industry.^[1]

References

1. Hoare, Sarajane; Baron, Fabien (2002). Talking Fashion. PowerHouse Books. ISBN 9781576871157.
2. Boehm, Klaus; Lees-Spalding, Jenny (2016). Student Book. Springer. pp. 211–213. ISBN 9781349133024.
3. Alvarez, Alex (4 October 2010). "Town & Country Magazine Names Guest Fashion Director". AdWeek. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
4. Vogue: The Shoe, by Harriet Quick; published February 2018 by Octopus Books / Condé Nast Publications
5. Cosgrave, Bronwyn (19 May 2008). "Safari chic". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 August 2017.(subscription required)
6. Morrison, Sasha Charnin (2011). Secrets of Stylists: An Insider's Guide to Styling the Stars. Chronicle Books. p. 79. ISBN 9781452105772.
7. "Vanity Fair". Condé Nast Publications. March 2003: 275. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
8. Quick, Harriet (19 September 1998). "In the flesh: Mario Testino". The Independent. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
9. Crowe, Lauren Goldstein; Rosen, Sagra Maceira de (2009). The Jimmy Choo Story: Power, Profits and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe. A&C Black. ISBN 9781408803189.
10. Lester, Richard (2013). Dress of the year. Antique Collectors' Club. pp. 164–165. ISBN 9781851497256.