![]() ![]() That led you to having this passion and a vision? At a very young age, my aunt, Brigid, probably with the help of my mother, became a fashion editor at the Sunday Times in the very late '50s.Īshley: You had this exposure from a really young age to print, to fashion, to the industry and international experience as well very international, especially for the Times. ![]() I guess they were probably sent to England for school when they got to a certain age. My mother had been born in Rangoon and my aunt, Brigid, had been born in India. Also, my aunt, Brigid Keenan, who is still alive, very much alive, was a fashion journalist. ![]() I started getting holiday jobs with a photographer. Probably by 14 or 15, I had the sense that that was what I might do. Then I started to look at these music magazines and I decided I wanted to be a photographer quite early on. It was a very powerful sense, if you like. At Eton, we started doing photography, making thin-hole cameras and we were in the dark from processing the film and it brought back the smells of the printing works and the times and memories of my mother. My mother died when I was 11 and then I got sent away to school. I guess that was my original looking at magazines and papers, just being in a paper but it seemed very unconscious at the time. One of the printers would have taken me off and got me to set my name and type or do something like that and then take me to the café to get a cup of tea and a cheese row. The whole floor of this building would have been dedicated to that. She would give me some things to do, drawing or whatever, but she would then get something from the printing works.Īt that time all the newspapers were printed on-site. After school I would play football and then be thrown out of the school playground and wander over to my mom's office. My mother was the women's page editor of the London Times when I was very young and I was at school across the road from the Times' office and printing house square out of school, go to the City of London. For those who know about Russian cameras, that will ring a bell. Perry: I think that when I was about 13, 14, I probably got my first camera, Zenith-E. Could you tell us a little bit about that? How you had this startup mindset already from a very young age to create something that didn't exist? I know a little bit from your work that you originally did start your own magazine when you were still in school. That gave me an interest in popular culture and from there, I started looking at fashion magazines.Īshley: Great. Perry: I think it really began by looking at magazines and looking at pictures, probably initially at music magazines, like New Music Express, Melody Maker Sound back in the '70s when I was still in school. Can I start with just asking you, how did it all begin for you? ![]() I think we're really lucky to be able to ask you the different questions we have today to understand your career and how you got to where you are today. He's a filmmaker, he's a photographer, he has worked all over the world with the biggest names in the industry. I'm super happy to be here today to speak to Perry Ogden. I've spent the last few years working with groups like LVMH and now I work for Google in a luxury role. I'm a technologist within the luxury industry. Ashley McDonnell: Hello, I'm Ashley McDonnell. ![]()
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