CAREER

Russo has built a successful career in New York’s fashion industry and is now one of VIGUE’s leading fashion journalists, regularly entrusted with major assignments.

Alongside covering collections, he has worked on numerous features involving designers, models, actors, and musicians—projects that bring fashion and personality together. He remains involved in editorial work, but still prefers to go out into the field and conduct interviews himself.

Russo is well connected throughout the industry. Over the years, he has built an extensive network stretching from backstage at fashion shows to brand PR teams, modeling agencies, and designers themselves. He is equally familiar with the glamour of the industry and with the people who fall out of its favor.

His curiosity about new clothes, new faces, and new talent remains as strong as ever.

OFF THE CLOCK

Russo’s private life is every bit as busy as his professional one.

He enjoys good food, alcohol, fashion, and an active social life, making the most of living in New York.

Romance brings out his emotions more than anything else. After a breakup, it is not unusual for him to summon a friend to a bar and end up crying over drinks.

He rarely stays down for long, however. By the next day he is usually back at work, and before too long, he is likely to be completely taken with someone new.

HIS LINE

Russo knows the less glamorous side of the fashion industry well.

He has seen how money moves, how connections are used, what happens behind contracts, and how reputations are made. He has also seen jobs disappear overnight, only for someone else to step into the space left behind.

He does not involve himself in problems more than he considers necessary. There are times when he chooses to look the other way. He understands that this, too, is part of the reality of continuing to work in this world.

But when it comes to what appears under his own byline, the decision is his.

Early in his career, during the 2012 Model Fall Incident, Russo was asked to write a damaging piece about the model who had come under suspicion. He refused.

→ As Seen by Eddie Russo: The 2012 Model Fall Incident