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Hilary George-Parkin

harpersbazaar.com

Hi! I’m a freelance reporter, writer, and editor based in Toronto and New York City. I write (mostly) about fashion, retail, and consumer culture for publications including Vox, Vogue Business, Glamour, CNN, BBC, Racked, Refinery29, Fashionista, i-D, Footwear News, and The Atlantic.

I also work with brands and content studios on copywriting and branded content projects. For a full portfolio of my work, please get in touch.

Prior to going freelance, I worked as an editor at Stylecaster, Lucky magazine (RIP), Styleite (ditto), and Harper's Bazaar. I graduated from New York University and Columbia Journalism School.

    Publications

    • vox.com
      20 articles
    • footwearnews.com
      10 articles
    • stylecaster.com
      6 articles
    • Front Office Sports
      3 articles
    • sourcingjournal.com
      3 articles
    • glamour.com
      3 articles
    • bbc.com
      2 articles

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    • How companies are selling the summer that isn’t
      16 Jun 2020—vox.com
      Activity boxes and inflatable pools replace summer camp and trips to the beach. Getty Images In early March, as fears about the coronavirus mounted across the US, Swimply — a swimming-pool-sharing startup that’s sort of like an aquatic Airbnb — saw its business slow to a trickle. Around 20 percent of its 3,300 hosts paused bookings, and the company was forced to hit the brakes on a “pretty significant” funding round it had planned to close before the summer, says Asher Weinberger, Swimply’s...

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