Have you ever wondered what goes on after your post is submitted for review? What magic happens with a Style Guide, Grammar Guide and Internship Packet at the ready each week? The Editorial Society is what! These Fashionistas/os are a talented group of editorial wizards and sentence structure enthusiasts.
What are a CollegeFashionista editor’s biggest pet peeves? Serial commas, run-on sentences, using the wrong version of there, their or they’re—and I’m sure other non-grammar related things. So let’s learn more about these grammar nuts and see what else makes them a #RAD addition to the CollegeFashionista gang.
Editor: Alexia Morton
School: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Song you have on repeat: “Photograph” by Ed Sheeran is constantly on repeat!
Dream job: Working full time for CollegeFashionista.com (seriously, what other job could I want?).
Last movie you watched: The Devil Wears Prada. I just can’t get enough of Meryl Streep (or those Chanel boots).
Editor: Alissa Virgil
School: University of Arkansas
Favorite magazine/publication: Vogue, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan.
Dream job: In a perfect world I would own my own online clothing store. I would start with designing my own graphic T-shirts. I would take care of all the photo shoots and promotions for my brand, as well. If that got big, then my dreams would go above and beyond making me the next NASTY GAL.
Song you have on repeat: “U Don’t Know” by Alison Wonderland.
Editor: Ally Zacek
School: DePaul University
Favorite magazine/publication: I really dig a lot of the publications from the U.K. and Australia, like RUSSH and Hunger. Of course I love Vogue, but I like to draw inspiration from more art focused magazines that aren’t fully dedicated to just fashion.
Favorite Grammar Rule: I love a good semicolon. When used correctly, I think that they can help vary sentence structure and make writing more interesting.
Last movie you watched: I watched The Overnight, per a friend’s suggestion. It has one star on Netflix, stars Adam Scott and is not for the faint of heart.
Editor: Ami Cornell
School: Mercyhurst University
Dream Job: Stylist to the stars, while writing for Vogue or Condé Nast Travel on the side.
Favorite grammar rule: Seasons should NEVER be capitalized. The lines are blurred on this; I was always confused growing up as to whether or not seasons should be capitalized, so it’s nice to have a definitive answer from CollegeFashionista!
Last movie you watched: The Intern. Anne Hathaway in another fashion boss role and Robert De Niro as her aged intern, what’s not to love?
Editor: Audie Lauf
School: Illinois State University
Song you have on repeat: “Sober” by Selena Gomez and “Canon in D Major” by Pachelbel.
Dream Job: I have a few dream jobs. One would be accepting a teaching position at Hogwarts. Another dream job would be a professional cookie taster. In fashion I would love to work my way up to becoming a Creative Director for a publication.
Favorite magazine/publication: GQ, Men’s Health, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, WWD, Vogue and Glamour. I am a huge advocate for print media.
Editor: Azania Touré
School: Smith College
Dream Job: Fashion Curator at the V&A Museum.
Favorite grammar rule: A comma precedes any coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet) that joins two independent clauses.
Last movie you watched: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It was my first time seeing it, and now I’m obsessed.
Editor: Bailey Wojcik
School: University of South Florida
Song you have on repeat: “Give Me a Try” by The Wombats. I’m completely obsessed.
Dream Job: My dream job would be a retail buyer for a cool boutique or a writer/editor for a fashion magazine. I’ve always wanted to do something in the fashion industry ever since I was little.
Favorite magazine/publication: Definitely Seventeen Magazine. It’s been my favorite since my middle school days!
Editor: Baylor Cherry
School: University of Florida
Song you have on repeat: “Let It Go” by James Bay and “Fast Car” by Tobtok ft. River are my go-to songs right now.
Dream job: Working for a fashion company as a copywriter, stylist and social media rep! I would die to have any job that is fashion related that can still include my passion for writing.
Favorite grammar rule: Serial commas! When I edit my friends’ work, they question me when I delete it and then they get to learn something new!
Editor: Cherileigh Co
School: Ryerson University
Dream job: Editor-in-chief for NYLON magazine.
Favorite magazine/publication: Toronto Life.
Last movie you watched: The Witch. I love horror films!
Editor: Eliza Lavine
School: George Washington University
Song you have on repeat: “waves – Remix” by Miguel and Travi$ Scott.
Favorite grammar rule: I’m all about people who use “and I” vs. “and me” correctly. “And I” isn’t always correct, people!
Last movie you watched: I just re-watched Usual Suspects for the millionth time. It’s one of my all-time faves.
Editor: Elizabeth Morales
School: DePauw University
Favorite magazine/publication: NYLON or oh comely.
Last movie you watched: Heathers. Can’t get enough of those ’80s movies!
Dream job: Editor-in-chief for Vogue (I’m coming for you Anna!).
Editor: Eva Thomas
School: University of Minnesota
Favorite magazine/publication: I love The New York Times, its style section and The New York Times Magazine. I love the writing style in this publication, and the fashion is fabulous! Oh, and I’m also such a huge fan of Bill Cunningham. Who wouldn’t love riding around on a bike taking photos of fashionable New Yorkers? I may have to change my dream job…
Song you have on repeat: “Hymn for the Weekend” by Coldplay, featuring the queen.
Favorite grammar rule: I am comma obsessed. I may be guilty of overusing them at times, but a missing comma or a misplaced one can totally change the meaning and flow of a sentence.
Editor: Gabriella Wiltz
School: Ohio State University
Favorite magazine/publication: Self magazine and Shape magazine with an unhealthy dosage of HBFit on the side.
Last movie you watched: Straight Outta Compton. I am literally convinced that I was supposed to come of age in the ’80s.
Favorite grammar rule: Divorcing the serial comma has been an oddly liberating experience for me. I feel like I’m a part of a secret society of writers and editors now because before joining the editorial team I never paid attention to it.
Editor: Hannah Littlefield
School: Oklahoma State University
Song you have on repeat: “Somebody Else” by The 1975.
Favorite magazine/publication: NYLON, Vogue, The Gentlewoman, Local Wolves and Popular Science.
Last movie you watched: Bill Cunningham New York. Hoping I run into him when I move to NYC after graduation!
Editor: Kasia Kujawski
School: DePaul University
Song you have on repeat: “New Thang” by Red Foo.
Favorite magazine/publication: NYLON magazine.
Last movie you watched: Gone Girl.
Editor: Katy Anderson
School: University of Mississippi
Song you have on repeat: “Shirtsleeves” by Ed Sheeran (Ed is always on repeat).
Favorite grammar rule: Complement v. Compliment. Complements complete something, and compliments praise something!
Dream job: Executive Editor at Glamour.
Editor: Keishorea Armstrong
School: Binghamton University
Dream job: Olympian or Editor-in-Chief at Essence Magazine.
Last movie you watched: How To Be Single. I highly recommend going to see it!
Song you have on repeat: “Work” by Rihanna.
Editor: Kelsey Knepler
School: University of Wisconsin- Madison
Favorite magazine/publication: Teen Vogue, Vogue, WhoWhatWear and InStyle.
Favorite grammar rule: Using “affect” and “effect” correctly will have a positive “effect.”
Last movie you watched: Roman Holiday. I’m all about the classics!
Editor: Kristin Vartan
School: Pepperdine University
Song you have on repeat: “Wouldn’t it Be Lovely” from the My Fair Lady Soundtrack. I am a fan of musicals and ones that have Audrey Hepburn in them!
Favorite magazine/publication: Vogue all the way in both America and the UK. I just attended the 100 Year Anniversary exhibit for British Vogue, which exemplified how their artistic and revolutionary vision has not been lost in translation in the last century they’ve been in circulation! Long live Vogue!
Movie you last watched: Kate and Leopold! Who doesn’t love a ’90s classic film with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman and time travel? I still cannot get over what a gentleman Leopold is and the way he looks at Kate like she is the most marvelous person in the entire world. Swoon!
Editor: Lauren Zazzara
School: St. Bonaventure University
Dream job: I would love to own my own vintage shop. I absolutely love shopping vintage, and I think it would be so cool to be able to sell my own finds and basically be able to thrift for a living!
Favorite grammar rule: Using hyphens for compound modifiers. These trip me up all the time, but for some reason seeing a hyphenated compound modifier is really satisfying, and I always notice when they are done correctly!
Song you have on repeat: “Seen it All” by Jake Bugg. He really should get more attention; he’s so talented!
Editor: Marissa DePino
School: Drake University
Favorite magazine/publication: Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Seventeen and Marie Claire.
Song you have on repeat: “Jet” by Paul McCartney.
Last movie you watched: Pirates of the Caribbean (you can never have enough Orlando Bloom).
Editor: Melyssa Granat
School: George Washington University
Dream job: In a perfect world, my dream career would somehow combine Rachel Zoe, WeWoreWhat’s Danielle Bernstein and being an Editor-in-chief at a magazine into one fabulous job!
Favorite magazine/publication: It depends; most days it’s Cosmopolitan or Glamour, but if I’m feeling gossipy, I must read People for all the juicy celeb news and trending hot topics!
Song you have on repeat: “Work from Home” by Fifth Harmony and Ty Dolla $ign.
Editor: Rachel Rosenstock
School: Indiana University
Dream job: Running my own fashion blog (think ManRepeller or Into the Gloss) and turning it into a brand!
Favorite grammar rule: Fashionista and Fashionisto should always be capitalized! It is an official title, after all!
Last movie you watched: Sweeney Todd. Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman and Tim Burton are a magical and murderous combination.
Editor: Rilka Noel
School: University of Notre Dame
Dream job: Creative director of an online/digital arts & culture magazine. Somewhere that features fashion, art, music and maybe personal essays, too.
Favorite magazine/publication: The New Yorker, Dazed, Paper or i-D!
Last movie you watched: Spotlight! It won the Oscar for Best Picture this year. It was amazing!
Editor: Ronald Amiscaray
School: Loyola University Chicago
Song you have on repeat: Beyoncé’s “Formation” and Adele’s “All I Ask.”
Favorite grammar rule: The use of colons and semicolons! They’re a tricky punctuation mark, but very liberating when you know how to use them correctly.
Last movie you watched: I watched this queer film on Netflix called Edge of Seventeen. It was a coming out, coming-of-age film.
Editor: Samantha Ferguson
School: Temple University
Dream job: A visual merchandiser for any retail brand. I’d also love to own a bathing suit boutique somewhere in either Florida or California to escape the northern winters.
Favorite magazine/publication: Ok, this may be weird, but I love GQ (probably because of the well dressed, handsome men in it). I read a lot of Rolling Stone, and I’m obsessed with NYLON‘s editorials.
Editor: Simek Shropshire
School: Fordham University
Song you have on repeat: “Don’t Let Me Down” by The Chainsmokers.
Dream job: An executive curator at a major fine arts museum in either New York or London.
Favorite magazine/publication: Porter Magazine.
Editor: Sophia Benoit
School: Washington and Lee University
Song you have on repeat: “Water Under the Bridge” by Adele.
Dream job: The editor-in-chief of my own world-famous fashion magazine.
Favorite magazine/publication: Glamour Magazine.
Editor: Stacey Milas
School: West Chester University
Song you have on repeat: “Cake By the Ocean” by DNCE.
Favorite grammar rule: The lazy side of me loves to use and abuse em-dashes, but when you know how to use punctuation like semicolons and commas correctly you can put those dashes to rest.
Last movie you watched: Brooklyn. The film left me in extreme, happy tears!
Editor: Storm Tyler
School: Texas State University
Dream job: World traveling entrepreneur, [and an] economic developer and tech media curator to provide opportunity and community for women and marginalized groups globally.
Favorite magazine/publication: Refinery29, bossbabesatx, Fast Company, Create + Cultivate, Karla’s Closet.
Last movie you watched: Most likely one of Disney Channel’s original movies from the late ’90s/early 2000s—my favorites!
Editor: Sydney Otto
School: Ohio University, but currently studying at Universität Salzburg
Song you have on repeat: “American Money” by BØRNS for when I’m feeling English music but “Traum” by Cro when I’m feeling the German music!
Dream job: Editor-in-Chief of The New Yorker or a successful traveling food blogger (YUM!).
Last movie you watched: The Danish Girl in German!
Editor: Yesenia Darting
School: University of Iowa
Dream job: Being the owner of an eclectic boutique that offers both unique labels and ethically sourced handcrafted home decor items from around the world would be cool. Plus, running a pet adoption center.
Favorite magazine/publication: I love InStyle and RealSimple magazines; and, of course, the iconic Vogue.
Last movie you watched: Tangerine. I HIGHLY recommend this surprisingly touching movie. It was all filmed on 3 iPhones!
Editor: Rhesa Mae Bernal
School: Rutgers University-Newark
Song you have on repeat: The whole Hamilton soundtrack, to be honest!
Favorite magazine/publication: TIME and Vogue.
Dream job: To be a reporter or a broadcaster on a famous news network!
