The New Garde with Alyssa Vingan
In this week’s jam-packed episode, Alyssa is joined by fashion editor turned author Danielle Prescod to discuss how she’s navigated the publishing world, from digital media to writing books. Tune in for a wealth of Danielle’s insights about working her way up the masthead by starting as a “professional intern,” dealing with ego and racism at work, feeling like a fraud while “performing” how great your job is on social media, transitioning from magazines to the tech startup world, boosting your profile with street style (and using that attention as currency to advance your career), making herself a test subject for stories in exchange for expensive treatments that are unaffordable on an editor salary, the realities of losing editorial access when you switch publications, reinforcing collective psychosis by covering questionable topics to get traffic, the dangers of feeding the content beast and attempting to become a “brand,” getting too emotionally invested in your job, burning yourself out to the point of physical exhaustion, switching careers, and maintaining personhood above all else.