HT Brunch meets Imran Amed, one of the most influential voices in the world of high fashion

A young fashion writer meets Imran Amed, the Indian-origin management consultant-turned- fashion blogger, who has become one of the most influential voices in the world of fashion today

I’m going to tell you a story that you’ve probably heard before.

A Harvard graduate who quit his management job at McKinsey, Imran Amed took a leap of faith and merged his love for data with his interest in fashion (Styling by Nikhil Mansata)(Jean Goldsmith)

Amed’s original business idea was to create an incubator for young fashion designers in London in 2006 (Jean Goldsmith)

“Your grandmother never tells you, ‘Oh, I hope you become a fashion designer or a fashion journalist one day’”

“Fashion is like a mirror of the world and that makes it powerful”

The biggest impact India has made in global fashion, says Amed, is through its faces

“I was never the smartest kid in school. I wasn’t the most creative. It took me a long time to figure out that my potential value isn’t in one or the other – it’s in the combination.”

“There aren’t too many people in fashion who come from an Indian heritage”

“When I’m sitting at Virgil’s show for Vuitton or the Missoni show in Milan, it is interesting to see Indian faces in the fabric of global culture on the runways”