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Madeleine Luckel

Madeleine Luckel is Senior Design Editor, Digital at Architectural Digest, where she oversees web-exclusive home tours and writes an archive-focused newsletter. Previously, Madeleine worked at AD PRO, Vogue, and Vogue.com, where she covered a variety of design-related topics. Madeleine holds a Master of Arts in Costume Studies from NYU and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Brown University. She has contributed book chapters to Food and Fashion (Bloomsbury) and Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies (Routledge). You can find her on Instagram at @madeleineluckel.

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