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Apr 16, 2021 · Vanessa Friedman, revered fashion critic and fashion director of The New York Times, recounts legendary fashion moments. Selecting the show where Hussein Cha...
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Vanessa Friedman (https://www.nytimes.com/by/vanessa-fr...) has been the fashion director and chief fashion critic at The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/) since 2014....
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Feb 9, 2023 · Over her career writing for the world's most respected periodicals, Vanessa Friedman has solidified herself as a definitive fashion voice and wordsmith. In 2...
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Vanessa Friedman was named the fashion director and chief fashion critic for The New York Times in March 2014. In this role she leads global fashion coverage for both The New York Times and ...
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I focus on fashion as an expression of political, social and cultural identity at a specific moment in time, especially how it is used by those in the public eye to communicate values and influence opinion. I look at how designers translate that into products for all of us on the runway, as well as the evolution of fashion into a part of pop cultur...
I joined The Times in 2014 after 11 years at the Financial Times, five of them in London. I was the FT’s first fashion editor, and the FT was my first all-fashion job. Before that I focused on culture coverage at magazines such as InStyle, The Economist and The New Yorker. I have won the Fashion Group International’s Media Award, the Front Page awa...
The Times has an extensive ethics policy, which all Times journalists follow. I don’t accept press trips (flights and hotels) to cover faraway shows or presentations, nor gifts such as clothes or handbags, and I cannot directly hold stock in any companies I cover. Whenever I contact people for information, I identify myself as a reporter for The Ti...
May 7, 2022 · By Vanessa Friedman. Published May 7, 2022 Updated May 10, 2022. In 2009, the Danish Fashion Institute held one of the first sustainable fashion summits in Copenhagen, just around the time of...
Vanessa Friedman has been the fashion director and chief fashion critic at The New York Times since 2014. Her lauded insight as a critic balances both the courage to speak to reality and a responsibility to inform her readers.
