publications :
Cabana
The New York Times
Wallpaper
Exit
Dazed
+ more
CLIENTS :
adidas
American Apparel
Dove
Lacoste
Tom Ford
+ more
Margo Fortuny is a writer, artist, and lyricist. She has worked for British Vogue and the Associated Press and has published articles in The New York Times, Cabana, Exit, Dazed, and other magazines. She specializes in storytelling and interviews.
In 2025, she wrote the script for The Peace That Was Before, which featured in four film festivals and won an Honorable Mention at the Bridge of Peace Festival in Paris.
Fortuny won 30 international awards including three Cannes Lions when she was a scriptwriter/ copywriter for Ogilvy London.
As a lyricist, Fortuny has collaborated with the composer Louis Fontaine on the record ‘Tormento’ featuring Alix Brown, out on Four Flies Records, as well as on the album ‘Des Animaux Pires Que Moi’, featuring Yzoula (of La Femme), released by Broc Records in 2025.
Having lived in New York City, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Madrid and Paris, she also speaks Spanish, French, and a little Italian. Fortuny has a degree in art history (USC) and a master's degree in narrative non-fiction creative writing (UCL). She also paints and performs in art exhibitions and films. You can read her blog here. She is currently available for freelance projects.
CV available upon request.
Picture by Matt Bucknall
Fortuny in the Press:
atonal
FLAUNT
FILE
INDIEVISION
SHINDIG
DNA
RESERVED
& VOGUE BRASIL, THE GUARDIAN, STYLE.COM, EUROPEAN VIBE, CIRCLE, etc.
Regarding a song written by Fortuny: “Set against the evocative backdrop of a neon-lit rendezvous, the track blends the lyrical wit of Serge Gainsbourg with the infectious grooves of Daft Punk.” -BJ Panda Bear, Music: Tormento, Reserved
“The single ‘Des Animaux Pires Que Moi’ sounds like a threat wrapped in velvet. As if Jean Rollin had titled a France Gall album. And the cinematic simile isn't far-fetched: the album draws on alchemy, black magic, the occult, and 1970s pulp novels as its raw material, courtesy of the evocative grayscale lyrics of artist and composer Margo Fortuny (who wrote the…LP's lyrics and the album cover).” -Borja Coquillat, Atonal
“This month we look at the connection between literature and place in an interview with Margo Fortuny, one of America’s finest young literary talents.” -Peter Moore, Three Places, Three Books, European Vibe