 After her parents divorced she lived between Rome, Paris and Barcelona as an adolescent, and as a result has been quatri-lingual from an early age.She won a writing competition for Vogue magazine at the age of 17 in 1984 and was awarded a job in London with the magazine.At age 19, she was made picture editor by Anna Wintour, becoming the youngest editor in the magazine's history and by the age of 21 she was fashion director of the newly launched Spanish Vogue, and the youngest person in Conde Nast to become a fashion director, a record she holds to this day.