THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY 08/17/2016
NEW YORK, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 -T Magazinetoday announced that Alexander Fury has been named its new Chief Fashion Correspondent.
In making the announcement, Whitney Vargas, executive editor of T, said, 'Alex is a skilled journalist who has established himself as one of the leading voices in the fashion industry. We're thrilled to have him join our team, where he can now bring even more of his insightful writing to T's pages and website.'
Fury, an acclaimed fashion journalist and author, had been a frequent contributor to T. For three years, he served as the fashion editor of The Independent and I newspapers, and more recently as the men's fashion critic for American vogue.com.
Fury was awarded the inaugural Editorial Intelligence Award for Fashion Commentator of the Year in 2014. In 2015, he was named one of InStyle Magazine's 20 Most Powerful People in Fashion. In 2006 and 2007, Fury acted as curator on the exhibition 'Princess Line - The Fashion Legacy of Princess Margaret' at Kensington Royal Palace.
'Fashion today is dynamic, ever-changing, ever-innovating and always fascinating. The landscape is shifting as we speak. It's an amazing time to be joining T Magazine as their Chief Fashion Correspondent,' said Fury on his new role. 'I'm hugely excited to have the opportunity to analyze and report around that for one of the most respected news titles in the world, in print and across T's ever-evolving digital platforms.'
In his two features for T's Fall Women's Fashion issue, Fury explored how the look of Les Incroyables, the 18th-century French punks, reappeared on the runway (Fashion as Protest), and why Clare Waight Keller, Chloé's creative director, finds inspiration in the freewheeling life of the 1970s French motorcyclist Anne-France Dautheville (La Femme Chloé).
The issue comes out on August 21 and features a
cover storyon the actress Kristen Stewart.T Magazine, published 13 times a year by The New York Times, is dedicated to the cultural coverage of style. A weekly digest of the top stories and videos fromtmagazine.comis available by signing up on the site for T'snewsletter.
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