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Monica Mendal

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Portrait of Monica Mendal

i. Biography

Coming Up

The editorial eye was shaped early through training at Cannes, where Monica Mendal learned the discipline of reading image, pace, and atmosphere as working tools. That foundation carried into fashion publishing, where she took on the fashion editor role across Condé Nast publications including Vogue, GQ and Glamour. In those rooms, the work depended on speed, judgment, and the ability to make language and image hold together under pressure. Today, the same editorial precision runs through her work as editor in residence of Who What Wear and author of So There’s This Place.... The book title points to the register she works in now: attentive to place, to mood, and to the details that give a destination weight beyond its itinerary. The shift from fashion pages to travel writing is less a change of subject than a move toward a more personal form of reporting, still built on structure, selection, and close observation.

Where They Are Now

The travel voice here is built on repetition and return, not novelty. Monica Mendal’s line — “In every city I visit often, I have a favorite hotel, the one that always feels like coming home.” — frames hospitality as part of a working map, with certain places becoming fixed points rather than stopovers. It is a practical way to read a city: through habits, anchors, and the rooms that make movement feel manageable. That same approach gives logistics a plainspoken clarity. In that register, travel is not staged as spectacle; it is organized around ease, familiarity, and the small efficiencies that make a place worth returning to.

In Their Words “In every city I visit often, I have a favorite hotel, the one that always feels like coming home.”

Career - editor in residence — Who What Wear - author — So There's This Place... - fashion editor — Condé Nast publications including Vogue, GQ and Glamour Education: Cannes

FAQ What is Monica Mendal's current role? Monica Mendal is editor in residence. Where did Monica Mendal train or study? Monica Mendal trained at Cannes.