Dana Thomas is the author of
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes,
Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition,
Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano and the
New York Times bestseller
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by Penguin Press. She is the European Sustainability Editor for British
Vogue, a regular contributor to the
New York Times, and hosts “The Green Dream,” a weekly podcast on sustainability, produced by Wondercast.Studio. She wrote the screenplay for
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, a feature documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020.
Thomas began her career writing for the Style section of
The Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for
Newsweek in Paris. Thomas has written for
The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the
Financial Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and
Architectural Digest. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. And in 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Paris.
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