Megha Kapoor
(TC 2004)
There’s not really a particular moment when I became interested in fashion. I’ve always expressed myself via sartorial means and some of my earliest memories are of drawing dresses and designing things.
At Trinity, I had a lot of fun with fashion. I loved to dress up, planned my outfits well in advance and took a lot of risks. I wore blue eyeshadow, went through a phase of dressing like a Gothic Mary Poppins, and loved to wear colour, including in my hair (I was a lot more expressive then than I am now).
When I look back, I wasn’t just experimenting and having fun, but was also trying to create a sense of belonging and cut through casual racism. People love to trivialise fashion, but, for me, growing up as an immigrant in New Zealand and being a woman of colour at Trinity made it important for me to use fashion to feel a sense of power and to find myself a place within the community.
Though I’ve always been drawn to fashion and used it to my advantage, while at College I couldn’t have fathomed a career in the industry; I was studying law and politics and didn’t have any connections in the industry. I worked in commercial law firms for a while but eventually the fashion industry drew me in and proved to be complex and rewarding. There’s often a misconception that the fashion industry is just about glamour, but, from my experience, the fashion industry attracts some of the hardest-working people.
Another thing that some people don’t realise is that everyone is connected to fashion, whether they think they are or not. Fashion is self-expression. Fashion is storytelling. Fashion is art. I feel so lucky to be a part of it.
MEGHA KAPOOR is the Head of Editorial Content at Vogue India. She is also a creative director and stylist in Australia and India.
Born in India, Megha moved to New Zealand with her parents when she was two years old. After finishing school in Auckland, Megha moved to Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Law and Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.
She decided to pursue a career in fashion and moved to Mumbai to take a Condé Nast journalism cadetship at Vogue India, where she worked as a junior fashion writer. She later joined Vogue Australia, then joined indie publication Oyster magazine, where she was Fashion Director and Content Leader for digital fashion, music and the arts. In 2015, she founded the modern luxury publication INPRINT.
At Trinity College, Megha was on the Fleur de Lys magazine team and captained the squash team.
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