Dana Thomas

Dana Thomas is a fashion journalist based in Paris.

Career

She began her career covering the style beat for The Washington Post in 1987.

Thomas served as the European editor of Conde Nast Portfolio from 2008 to 2009, was European cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris from 1995 to 2008, and has contributed to various publications including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Vogue, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times in London. She is also the Paris correspondent for Australian Harper's Bazaar and is a regular contributor to Harper's Bazaar in the United States.^[1]

She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by The Penguin Press in 2007. The book addresses the disparity between the rarefied world that luxury once represented- populated by private, family-owned businesses that catered to the aristocracy and the billion-dollar, mass-producing and mass-marketing industry it is today.^[2]

Thomas lives in Paris and is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club.^[3] She taught journalism at The American University of Paris from 1996 to 1999. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Scholarship and the Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Huffington Post". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-thomas. 
2. ^ "The Devil Wears Hermès (He Bought It at the Caesars Palace Mall in Las Vegas)". New York Times. August 21, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/books/21kaku.html. 
3. ^ "CNBC". accessed 28 December 2010. http://www.globalplayers.tv/index.php?id=197. 
4. ^ "Penguin Books Group". http://penguinspeakersbureau.com/speaker/181. 

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