Dana Thomas

Author Dana Thomas is a contributing editor for British Vogue and also contributes regularly to the New York Times style section. She is the author of several books including New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes and Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. Thomas is the European Sustainability Editor for UK Vogue and the host of a podcast focused on human rights and sustainability called “The Green Dream” produced by Wondercast. The gifted writer also wrote the screenplay for the feature documentary Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, which premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival directed by Luca Guadagnino.

Thomas kicked off her career as a writer for The Washington Post’s Style section before spending fifteen years as a fashion and cultural correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. Since then she has written for The New Yorker, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, the Financial Times, Architectural Digest and T: The New York Times Style Magazine amongst many others. Thomas has received numerous awards and accolades for her remarkable work, including the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism, and she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in 2016.