Vanessa Friedman
Fashion Director & Chief Fashion Critic, The New York Times
As the fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times, Vanessa Friedman leads its global fashion coverage on all platforms.
Before joining the paper, Friedman was the inaugural fashion editor of the Financial Times, where she edited the Style pages and Luxury360 vertical, wrote a column on Saturdays and created the paper’s annual Business of Luxury conference. She has also worked with InStyle UK, The Economist, American Elle, Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly.
Friedman, the author of Emilio Pucci, holds a degree from Princeton University and is an honorary professor at Glasgow-Caledonian University. She was the recipient of the 2012 Front Page Award for fashion writing and received the 2013 Fashion Monitor Journalist of the Year award.
Friedman’s writing in these above-mentioned publications is renowned, its direct, pragmatic approach to fashion, offering incisive commentary on the socio-political ramifications of its role in today’s society.
Friedman is a regular at the Fashion Summit. In 2016 she was speaking about the importance of making sustainability sexy:
