Kirstie Clements was born on 23 March 1962 and is an Australian author, editor, journalist and speaker.
32 Facts About Kirstie Clements
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Kirstie Clements has previously acted as director and chief creative officer for luxury lingerie brand Porte-a-Vie and features editor for Harpers Bazaar Australia.
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Kirstie Clements was born on 23 March 1962 in Sydney, Australia.
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Kirstie Clements grew up in the Sutherland Shire, a local government area in the southern region of Sydney, New South Wales.
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At the age of sixteen, Kirstie Clements moved to the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst with her mother Gloria.
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At the age of 23, Kirstie Clements was working in a bookstore when she saw a job being advertised in the newspaper for receptionist at Vogue Australia.
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Kirstie Clements immediately applied for the position and was granted an interview.
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Kirstie Clements quickly moved on from the reception desk, taking on various jobs within the Vogue Australia offices.
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Kirstie Clements departed Vogue Australia in the early 1990s to move to Paris and work as the foreign correspondent for Vogue Australia, and the newly launched Vogue Singapore.
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Kirstie Clements joined the fashion show circuit, travelling constantly, and interviewing the world's top designers, beauty experts and business leaders.
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Kirstie Clements returned to Australia in 1997 where she briefly worked as Beauty Editor for Vogue Australia before joining glossy magazine rival Harper's Bazaar.
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Kirstie Clements was brought on as associate editor for the magazine and worked there for just over two years from 1997 to 1999.
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Kirstie Clements returned to Vogue Australia in 1999 to be hired as the magazine's editor-in-chief.
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Kirstie Clements succeeded Juliet Ashworth, who was former editor-in-chief from 1998 to 1999.
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Kirstie Clements described her return to Vogue Australia as a challenge to rebuild its image following a demise in the 1990s.
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When interviewing applicants for potential positions at Vogue Australia, Kirstie Clements remarked how surprised she was by the number of young girls who expressed an obsession with a fashion label instead of an original style or desire to make things.
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Kirstie Clements was fired from her position as editor-in-chief six years after the News Limited acquisition, on 16 May 2012.
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Kirstie Clements was called into a meeting with NewsLifeMedia CEO Nicole Sheffield who directed her to collect her belongings and depart the Vogue Australia offices immediately without offering an explanation as to why she was being fired.
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Kirstie Clements left the office and went to have a drink at Bondi's Icebergs bar while news of her departure was announced.
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Kirstie Clements was succeeded by Edwina McCann, former editor-in-chief of rival magazine Harper's Bazaar Australia.
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The day after her firing from Vogue Australia, Kirstie Clements received a phone call from Louise Adler of Melbourne University Press who invited her to write a book about her career.
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The book went on to become a bestseller in a number of markets worldwide, and Kirstie Clements made an appearance on US talk show The View which was hosted by Barbara Walters to discuss the book.
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Kirstie Clements described writing the book as a cathartic experience which encouraged her to look back at her time with Vogue Australia with fondness despite the way she was let go.
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Kirstie Clements co-authored Fashion, The First Fifty Years from The Australian Women's Weekly, which was published by the National Library Australia in 2014.
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From 2014 to 2017, Kirstie Clements worked as a creative consultant and editorial ambassador for Australian department store chain Myer and contributed to its Myer Emporium Magazine, a custom magazine owned by Bauer Media Australia.
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In March 2017, Kirstie Clements co-launched luxury lingerie brand Porte-a-Vie with former colleague Lisa Hili.
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Kirstie Clements serves as the company's director and chief creative officer.
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Kirstie Clements often makes public speaking appearances and contributes to a number of fashion and beauty publications such as The New Daily.
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Kirstie Clements is a board director for FARE and an ambassador for Australian children's cancer charity Camp Quality.
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Kirstie Clements served as a guest judge on a panel alongside Alex Perry and Charlotte Dawson.
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In June 1992, while Kirstie Clements was working as a freelance journalist in Paris she married French-Algerian nightclub bouncer Mourad Ayat.
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Kirstie Clements met Ayat while covering collections and moved to Paris in 1994.