About the Role
Lead Monocle and Konfekt’s fashion coverage from our Paris bureau. This is a senior editorial role with real influence, defining how our titles cover fashion across menswear and womenswear while maintaining a thoughtful, globally minded perspective. You will represent our titles at industry events and produce distinctive, intelligent reporting across print, digital, and radio.
Responsibilities
- Lead Monocle and Konfekt’s fashion coverage from our Paris bureau.
- Report, write, edit and commission original journalism across magazines, digital, newsletters, radio and podcasts.
- Attend a busy calendar of international fashion weeks, tradeshows and industry events throughout the year.
- Build and deepen relationships with businesses, brands, designers, retailers and industry leaders.
- Identify emerging stories, markets, people and ideas that deserve attention.
- Collaborate closely with editorial teams in London, Paris and our international bureaux.
- Represent Monocle and Konfekt at industry events and contribute to commercial conversations where appropriate.
Requirements
- Significant experience in fashion journalism or commercial editorial.
- Outstanding writer and editor with impeccable editorial judgement.
- Strong existing network across the international fashion industry.
- Commercially aware without compromising editorial integrity.
- Thrives in a fast-moving news space where every day brings something different.
- Naturally curious, confident and comfortable building relationships at every level.
- Fluent in both English and French.
- Demonstrable expertise in fashion journalism writing in English is strongly preferred.
- Excited by the potential for extensive international travel and ambitious about the ability to shape the role.
- Eligibility to work and reside in France is ideal.
Skills
- Fashion journalism
- Commercial editorial
- Writing
- Editing
- Editorial judgement
- Networking
- Commercial awareness
- Relationship building
- French language proficiency
- English language proficiency
Location
- Paris
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Monocle and Konfekt are publications known for their distinctive, intelligent reporting and globally minded perspective.
