page_title: Marion Hume
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caption_attribution_description: English: With Vivienne Westwood and EFI in rural Kenya
context_page_description: Marion Hume is a British/Australian fashion journalist and screenwriter based in London, England. Her career spans the UK, the US and Australia. She has interviewed Yves Saint Laurent, Diana Vreeland, Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs and Giorgio Armani andValentino’s Pierpaolo Picciolias well as chief executives of global fashion businesses including Bernard Arnault of LVMH, Francois-Henri Pinault of Kering and Bruno Pavlovsky of Chanel. Cover stories include a 2018 profile of Prince Charles which had in excess of 44 million views. She is the International Fashion Editor of The Australian Financial Review which, by 2019, had won the best magazine award in its class an unprecedented seven times in a row.
  For five years, she was the senior consultant for The Ethical Fashion Initiative of the United Nations’ agency, ITC, which works with designers including Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney to harness the power of fashion as a vehicle out of poverty for some of the world’s most marginalized artisans. She works on several philanthropic initiatives.
context_section_description: Marion Hume (born 3 July 1962) is a British/Australian fashion journalist and screenwriter based in London, England. Her career spans the UK, the US and Australia. She has interviewed Yves Saint Laurent, Diana Vreeland, Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs and Giorgio Armani andValentino’s Pierpaolo Picciolias well as chief executives of global fashion businesses including Bernard Arnault of LVMH, Francois-Henri Pinault of Kering and Bruno Pavlovsky of Chanel. Cover stories include a 2018 profile of Prince Charles which had in excess of 44 million views. She is the International Fashion Editor of The Australian Financial Review (AFR) which, by 2019, had won the best magazine award in its class an unprecedented seven times in a row.
  For five years, she was the senior consultant for The Ethical Fashion Initiative of the United Nations’ agency, ITC (International Trade Centre), which works with designers including Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney to harness the power of fashion as a vehicle out of poverty for some of the world’s most marginalized artisans. She works on several philanthropic initiatives.
  A public speaker and host, she has moderated panels at Copenhagen Fashion Summit; Fashion Futures, Riyadh and the Fair Living Wage negotiations in Phnom Penh. She has appeared regularly on the stage at the V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum) including interviewing the hat designer, Philip Treacy. She is also the co-author of Philip Treacy’s eponymous book for Rizzoli. She curated Bespoke, a celebration of creative collaboration at The Sydney Opera House.
  Hume is currently involved in two screenwriting projects, one of these set in the fashion industry where she has had a front row view for over 30 years. Previously, she worked over a three-year period, on rewrites and polishes on a major Hollywood production with eOne which is anticipated to be filmed in 2020.
  She is a member of the WGA and the WGGB. In 2019, she reached the final shortlist of a national competition to write a play celebrating the 150th anniversary of the transatlantic communication cable between Cornwall, England, and Newfoundland, Canada.
caption: With Vivienne Westwood and EFI in rural Kenya (Far Left Side, Wearing Pink)
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