Vanessa Friedman

Who is Vanessa Friedman?

Vanessa Friedman is the fashion editor of the Financial Times, and has been since 2002. She is the first person to hold the post.

Friedman 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, Friedman was the Fashion Features Director for In Style UK, a position she held since 2000. Prior to this, she worked as a Fashion Correspondent for the FT, as an Arts Contributor at The Economist and was the European Editor at Elle US. She has also written extensively on a freelance basis for Entertainment Weekly, Vogue magazine, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

In 1998 Friedman was published in the New Yorker.

She is a graduate of Princeton University.