This Wed at 92Y, Glamour’s Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive moderated a talk between Robin Givhan, a writer for the Washington Post, designer Isaac Mizrahi and designer Ashley Olsen for The Future of Women’s Fashion. In the clip above, Ashley Olsen speaks about making the transition from acting to designing. On being in the entertainment industry, Ashley candidly admitted: “That wasn’t my choice, of ‘that’s what I want to do when I grow up, I wanna be an actress.’ That’s never what I thought I wanted to be. So when I turned 18 I stopped everything...and fashion is what I went after.”

The panel went on to discuss body image and the trend of ever smaller sizes in fashion even though women have become larger. Givhan noted “...all of the complaining and the blogging about how thin models are, no one is not buying the clothes from designers who use thin models.”

As you might imagine, a who’s who of the fashionista press was in the audience, and they all filed reports. For more coverage, visit The Cut blog, Glamour Fashion, (who also gave a great Twitter accounting!) and Fashionista. For an exclusive bit of news not yet reported in the main stream press, we have heard that after the event, Ashley Olsen and her sister Mary Kate, who attended the event to show support to her sister, stopped at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the street.

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