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Vanessa Friedman’s blog deals with the fashion/luxury industry from both a corporate and consumer point of view
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Vanessa Friedman has been fashion editor of the FT since 2002. She is the first person to hold the post. She writes a weekly column on style, edits the Business of Fashion supplements, and helped coordinate the FT’s Business of Luxury conference.
Prior to joining the FT, she was the features/fashion features director for the launch of UK In Style, and contributed regularly to The Economist, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Entertainment Weekly. - -
New York Fashion Week
The FT’s fashion editor Vanessa Friedman reports daily from the front row of at New York Fashion Week featuring collections from Jason Wu to Rag & Bone
Reality check for fashion’s wannabes
On top of talent, you need drive and desire and luck and a willingness to get through all the bad stuff, says Vanessa Friedman
Flights of fancy
Harking back to an era of jetsetters, socialites and movie legends, Paris couture was weighed down by history, writes Vanessa Friedman
The politics of sweater vests
The question now is whether 2012 will mark the year that politicians embrace fashion as a weapon in their campaign arsenal, says Vanessa Friedman
A farewell to silly snow gear
Vanessa Friedman, passing the umpteenth advert on the New York City subway for ‘heat-tech’ clothing, decides to give technology a try
Lunch with the FT: Peter Brant
The industrialist tells Vanessa Friedman that he sees himself as a mogul who collects art to show people ‘there’s something better in the world’
No news is good news
Vanessa Friedman mulls over what to pick as the most important fashion moment of the year but comes up with nothing
The problem with pre-fall
Vanessa Friedman finds the concept something of a mind-game. But there seems to be fashion breeds whose needs are satisfied by it
The allure of Alaïa
A retrospective of the Tunisian designer at the Groninger Museum demonstrates the benefits of taking the long view, Vanessa Friedman
Grey days for politicians
Silvio Berlusconi’s hair and dress style is a pretty neat expression of his approach to life and governing, writes Vanessa Friedman
