Project Runway's ElaineWelteroth on how fashion can be a force for change. NWConvos theMiddlests
's Elaine Welteroth is arguably the queen of multi-hyphenated credits. In 2016, at the age of 29, she was named editor-in-chief of, which, at the time, made her the youngest person to lead a Condé Nast magazine and only the second African American to be named editor-in-chief in Condé Nast's history. Then in 2019, she became a.
"It doesn't matter what your background is or what your pedigree is, at the end of the day you have to have the vision and the drive to get where you want to go," Welteroth told, Welteroth talked about the lessons she learned growing up in Northern California, the impact fashion can have on being a force for change and how the writer and public speaker Harriette Cole became the mentor that changed her life.
"She took me under her wing, and she trained me. She groomed me. And to this day, she's been there for me," Welteroth said about Cole, who gave Welteroth her first internship atmagazine."Every step in my career there's been a magical sort of guardian angel in the form of a black woman who has come and been by my side and helped open doors for me."
Elaine Welteroth attends the 2019 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards at Alice Tully Hall on November 11, 2019, in New York City.Now that Welteroth is in a position to offer advice to peers just starting out in fashion and media—be it designers on Bravo'sor aspiring writers—she sums it up by saying not to just follow your gut, but rather to follow your enthusiasm.
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