all this just feels so vindictive,” says Jordan, who added she had received overwhelmingly positive feedback from readers and advertisers. Yes, we sent the cover and the pages that were ready to New York before we published.

she is a successful businesswoman in Australia, women like her also read Harper’s, but that was twisted into something entirely different.

“I never said Shemara should go on the cover, just that she would be an inspiring person to profile in the magazine. Kelly’s departure was downplayed by Jordan, who this week announced fashion editor Jillian Davison had been elevated to the editor’s role.Īs for reports Hearst bosses never saw the magazine before it was published and that Jordan had pitched an unlikely cover girl for the luxury fashion magazine in the form of Macquarie Bank CEO Shemara Wikramanayake, Jordan maintains neither were quite correct. Three weeks ago PS revealed the magazine’s long-term editor-in-chief Eugenie Kelly had quit on the eve of the relaunch featuring playwright Nakkiah Lui on the cover. Poached: Jillian Davison jumped ship from Vogue Australia to relaunch Harper’s Bazaar Australia and has now been installed as editor. She has posted about the pressure of having “mouths to feed”, only to then share photos of lockdown gourmet luxuries such as truffled spaghetti. it’s a lot,” she told PS.įisher, who has been receiving emergency relief payments from the government, has also been venting her frustration over the lockdown and criticising government policies vociferously on social media. and the bills keep coming in, rent is $30,000 a month which I still owe from last year, my general manager died this year, I’m a single mum. “I’m just a small businessperson and it’s been bloody tough with no income in lockdown. She also claimed the notoriety had resulted in new offers coming in fast.īut Fisher, who has been dating 27-year-old Jack Mann, said her life beyond the glamorous and confected image portrayed on social media was not easy. While her old girlfriends are distancing themselves, Fisher says her latest scandal – which has parallels to Melbourne’s Nadia Bartel and her recent run-in with a Kmart plate – has had little negative impact on her popularity: she was still taking “PR deliveries” (or product freebies showered on social media influencers) from admirers during our chat, in which she also revealed her product “sponsors” were sticking by her, though she declined to name them. for God’s sake I raised $250,000 for the bushfire victims, but no one wants to write about that.” However, the darling of Double Bay eyebrows, who was the one who called PS this week after I inadvertently “liked” one of her Instagram photos, remains adamant: “I am not a bad person. The pair apparently fell out over a social media product endorsement deal Fisher had inked against Fairfax’s wishes. Relations had already cooled between Fairfax and Fisher well before she made news over the cocaine conviction. Credit: Chloe Paulįisher is a member of Sydney’s crop of social pages “It girls”, reaching her social – ahem – zenith as one of the bridesmaids at fashion darling Nadia Fairfax’s lavish wedding at Darling Point mansion Swifts this year and counting among her circle of “besties” the likes of popular social media influencers Rey Vakili, PR dynamo Montarna Pitt and wealthy heiresses Deborah Symond and Nicky Oatley.īut in recent months cracks have started to appear within the Instafamous tribe of privileged beauties. It girls: Nadia Fairfax, Olivia Bond, Kristin Fisher, Kate Bond, Jordana Sexton and Montarna Pitt.

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