The Funny
Girl
Laura Brown
Editor in chief of InStyle, New York City
Whether she’s posing with an
A-lister perched on her lap
(#onLaurasLap) or collapsing with
excitement over meeting Gloria
Steinem, this outspoken Aussie
and editor of InStyle magazine
(a Meredith sister publication)
is 100 percent herself: whip-smart,
glamorous, and refreshingly goofy
for a high priestess of fashion.
Consider her work uniform:
“A well-priced jumpsuit. I enjoy
looking like I can fix a car,” she
says. Throw in some leopard print
and flowy dresses, and you’ve
captured her freewheeling nature.
(But no skirts, please: “I’m a skirt
failure.”) Brown also revels in rich
storytelling—“having a mad idea,
shooting it, doing an interview,
and putting it out in the world”—
whether it’s a celebrity profile,
a fashion feature, or the Badass
Women series, a tribute to female
powerhouses. “You can spend all
day shaking your fist at what’s
happening, or you can read about
a rad lady and what she stands for,”
says Brown, whose other mega-
phone is Instagram, where she
charms her nearly 300,000 fol-
lowers daily. “It’s the magazine
of your life,” she says. We’ll sub-
scribe to that. —Melissa Ozawa
“My style at
home is rococo,
midcentury,
and marsupial—
I have gold
koala figurines.”
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