Delphine Hervieu is a fashion editor and consultant. Born to a Danish mother and a French father, she was born and raised in Paris where she completed a masters degree in Marketing for Luxury Brands at French business school, ESSEC. During her studies she has worked and lived in Paris, New York and Tel Aviv. Her pencil-led passion for fashion took her to London in 2007 where she worked in the online industry for companies such as Harrods and set up the basis of her editorial career to come. At the very beginning of 2010 an opportunity to work for Dolce & Gabbana's online magazine, Swide.com, brought her to Milan where she still writes, shoots and publishes. Delphine contributes among other publications to Grazia.it, huffingtonpost.co.uk, A Rush of Culture and unFLOP PAPER.

Parisian by birth, Milanese by adoption and New York-London-Tel Aviv by mood. I consider myself lucky as I am on the story telling side of fashion. My daily job is to romance and give meanings to cuts, fabrics and silhouettes. My imagination and curiosity drive me everyday to my keyboard (apart from those days when the page remains obstinately blank). My best friends are my father’s Montblanc pen and my Smythson notebook plus my Canon camera.

As a freelancer I work from home, which has the advantage of being free to organize my daily schedule but the inconvenience of never being really able to switch off. But do I want to turn it all off? Not really. If I am not writing, I am reading - if not reading I am cycling to meetings, taking my dog out or simply daydreaming about… fashion. I like to imagine that I was born with a fashion related disease; some sort of written fate that my mother would have officially described on my certificate of birth alongside a predictable shoe addiction. My mother is my icon of style even if this can sound a bit cliché. She taught me the basis of a good wardrobe, gave me a manual about timeless classics but first and foremost the ABC of a perfect attitude. She used to be a bit of a globetrotter and pushed me to become a globe-writer and to pick the right shoes. What dresses my feet set the tone for my day and tells the world around what I am up to. I love shoes and books and just got into books about shoes.

Needless to say that with my job and my obsessions, I am a loyal well performing customer at Amazon. Whatever comes after the dot. From all the cities I have lived in, Milan represents a balanced combination between quality of life and work opportunities. Plus Milan is a great spot to discover crafts and traditions thanks to the numerous Italian brands that are based there. It is a great laboratory and a relevant source of information to me. A day in the Italian fashion capital has to involve a cappuccino and currently a piece of Panettone bought at the pasticceria COVA… and yes, I do slip into my trainers for a run in the park to justify the sweet treat.

I walk miles in a day, and like to wander around with my camera to take shots of what teases my imagination or could be good article illustrations. The Golden triangle made of Via della Spiga – Via Montenapoleone - Via San Andrea is of course a required path but narrow one-way streets on the west side of the city close to Porta Genova are also among my favourites.

To the question if I have a mentor or would like to have the career of a specific fashion editor/ writer, I would reply that after all writing is like walking if you have to walk in somebody else’s shoes you need to know what you have inherited hence what the brief is. I do not do average neither do I stand in the middle. Either I am deep rooted into the ground or high up in the sky; it depends on my mood - and on my shoes.