Amal Clooney To Quit Practicing Law?

A passion for fashion may lead the lawyer to hang up her robes.

Amal Clooney (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty)

Amal Clooney (By Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty)

Human-rights attorney Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin) of Doughty Street Chambers has been the talk of celebrity gossip pages ever since she got engaged to actor George Clooney in April 2014. The Oxford graduate who received an LL.M. from NYU Law was named the “most fascinating person of 2014” not for her accomplishments in her legal career, but for her marriage to the actor.

These days, word on the street is that the Columbia Law human rights lecturer is thinking about hanging up her Ede and Ravenscroft robes to pursue one of her other passions: fashion. From The Inquisitr:

Designers have reportedly been so impressed by some of Amal’s contributions [to her gowns during public appearances with her husband] that they think she’d make the perfect fit as a full-time a fashion creator, with the likes of Oscar de la Renta’s creative director, Peter Copping, having already reached out to Alamuddin with an astounding offer.

Celeb Dirty Laundry alleges that Amal Alamuddin has always been obsessed with fashion and being hands-on with her red carpet dresses, but working as a full-time designer has never been something she’s considered before. And while she loves being a lawyer out in London, becoming a stylist could potentially be her next step if everything goes according to plan.

As a source told Hofmag, “Amal has long been obsessed with clothes, but she never considered working in the fashion industry. … She’d love to develop these working relationships [with fashion designers] further but doesn’t want it to distract from her day job at Doughty Street Chambers. Her life is already one huge balancing act.”

If Amal Clooney decides to throw in the towel on her legal career, perhaps we’ll next see her teaching at Parsons, which has longtime been considered an “Ivy League” school for fashion design. Best of luck to her in her future endeavors — no matter the industry.

Amal Alamuddin: Quitting Law Firm To Become Fashion Designer For George Clooney? [Inquisitr]

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