Suzy Menkes
| Suzy Menkes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Suzy Peta Menkes 24 December 1943 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Journalist, fashion critic |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Notable credit(s) | Vogue, The Times, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Harper's Bazaar |
Suzy Peta Menkes, OBE (born 24 December 1943 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK) is a British journalist and fashion critic. Formerly the fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune, Menkes is now International Editor for 19 international editions of Vogue online.
Menkes was born in the UK. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School. As a teenager in the 1960s, she moved to Paris to study dressmaking at what has now become ESMOD. Her landlady gained her entry into her first couture show at Nina Ricci, which sparked her interest in high fashion.
On her return from Paris, she read history and English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge while her sister studied at Oxford. After Cambridge, she worked for The Times reporting on fashion. In addition to her journalism, she has written several books, particularly on British Royal style.
Menkes professes to admire "good journalism", especially the work of Prudence Glynn at the Times of London and Eugenia Sheppard of the New York Herald Tribune. After leaving Cambridge in 1966, where she was the first woman who signed up to work for Varsity, the university's newspaper, she joined The Times as a junior reporter. At age 24, Menkes took her first job as a fashion journalist at the London Evening Standard, where she had been recruited by editor Charles Wintour, who became her mentor.
He really made me understand that as a fashion editor, or any other role at the paper, you are conduit to the public. You’re supposed to take in this information and then pass it on — that idea that, as a journalist, you’ve got to really take things in and then explain them in a way that’s comprehensible to other people.That’s the job.
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