20.5 Lucinda Chambers, fashion director

<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606;"> How do you follow a dream? Viv talks to the fashion legend, Lucinda Chambers, who worked at Vogue from the age of 21, eventually working her way up to become fashion director at the iconic magazine.</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606;"> Chatting in Lucinda’s beautiful west London home, she tells Viv about how she learned graft in her childhood and about working hard to follow creative sparks.</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606;"> Despite being in the glamorous world of fashion, Lucinda reveals that she never took it for granted and made sure her feet stayed on the ground while the sparkles danced among the style and the glossy pages of the magazine.</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606;"> She’s now co-founder of <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/collagerie/?hl=en">Collagerie</a>, a curated online shopping platform for fashion and interiors, which she runs with former Vogue colleague Serena Hood.</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606;"> And her advice is simple… it’s all in the baby steps.</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606;">  </span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;"> <span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;"> Viv's new book, </span><span style= "color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Happy-High-Status-Effor