Speaker Details
Vanessa Friedman
Fashion Editor, Financial Times
Vanessa Friedman is Fashion Editor at the Financial Times, and the first person at the FT to hold such a position. She writes a weekly column for the Saturday FT, as well as editing the Style page, and helps cover the luxury industry for the daily newspaper, and edits the twice-yearly supplement The Business of Fashion.
Before joining the FT as Fashion Editor Vanessa was the Fashion Features Director for In Style UK, a position she held since 2000. Previous to this she worked as a Fashion Correspondent for the FT, as an Arts Contributor at The Economist and was the European Editor at American Elle. She has also written extensively on a freelance basis for Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
She is a graduate of Princeton University.
