Vanessa Friedman

Vanessa Friedman is the fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times. Previously, she was the fashion editor of the Financial Times, features director of UK In Style, and contributed regularly to The Economist, The New Yorker, and Vogue. She is the winner of the Fashion Group International's Media award, the Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page award for specialty writing, and the Fashion/Beauty Monitor's Fashion Journalist of the Year award, and is on the advisory...See more

Vanessa Friedman is the fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times. Previously, she was the fashion editor of the Financial Times, features director of UK In Style, and contributed regularly to The Economist, The New Yorker, and Vogue. She is the winner of the Fashion Group International's Media award, the Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page award for specialty writing, and the Fashion/Beauty Monitor's Fashion Journalist of the Year award, and is on the advisory council of Princeton University's History Department. See less