Suzy Menkes

Fashion critic and authority Suzy Menkes, who has reclined on her “fashion editor” throne at the International Herald Tribune since 1988, is still climbing the ropes. Following a name-change for IHT that’s set to debut later this year, the journalist who has roasted everyone from designers to the “fashion circus” is also receiving an upgrade. Her brand-new title, WWD reports, is “international fashion editor of the International New York Times.”Read Full Story

(COVER MEDIA) Suzy Menkes will embrace a high-profile endowment in January. The British publisher as well as conform editor of a International Herald Tribune will be respected with a Fiorino d’Oro WWD reports, an endowment that is conferred by a Municipality of Florence to general personalities. The 69-year-old will be presented with a respect as a symbol of carrying renowned herself as well as contributing to a society’s amicable as well as informative development. Florence mayor Matteo...Read Full Story

Consider it a master class in how to start a media firestorm. Suzy Menkes's recent T Magazine essay about the changing nature of Fashion Week has elicited passionate responses from the people she fingers as the cause of that change: bloggers. And how could it not?Read Full Story

Classes on Thursday May 6 at 10 a.m. might be bare because the School of Fashion students will probably be at Morgan Auditorium for the discussion with Suzy Menkes, Fashion Editor of the International Herald Tribune and guest of honor at this year’s graduation fashion show. Executive Director of Fashion, Gladys Perint Palmer’s discussion with Menkes will center on the question, “If Fashion is for Everyone — is it Fashion?” In a one-on-one interview (similar to last year’s event), they will...Read Full Story

International Herald Tribune’s legendary fashion editor Suzy Menkes was in New Delhi recently to conduct the IHT conference on sustainable luxury. I met her and was pleasantly surprised by how much she knew about the country. Menkes has apparently been always fascinated by India and has travelled throughout the country. She is, of course, known for her views on Indian design and craftsmanship. She is a big supporter of Indian fashion designers retaining an element of the ethnic in their works...Read Full Story