Marian Christy and fashion reporting
I have been reading this book, Invasions of Privacy: Notes From A Celebrity Journalist by Marian Christy. Before Christy became a celebrity journalist, she was a fashion reporter at the Boston Globe. In that position, she won three Penney-Missouri Awards for fashion writing – in 1966, 1968 and 1970. This is how she described going to the Award ceremony: “The late Professor Paul Myhre told me that I had set new standards of fashion journalism by making daring and dazzling comments on social pretentions and he said, ‘trailed fashion first behind me like gold confetti.’ It was heady stuff.”
Her book also explained more about fashion reporting in the 1960s and 1970s that will be helpful in later work on fashion in the women’s pages.
Marian Christy and fashion reporting
I have been reading this book, Invasions of Privacy: Notes From A Celebrity Journalist by Marian Christy. Before Christy became a celebrity journalist, she was a fashion reporter at the Boston Globe. In that position, she won three Penney-Missouri Awards for fashion writing – in 1966, 1968 and 1970. This is how she described going to the Award ceremony: “The late Professor Paul Myhre told me that I had set new standards of fashion journalism by making daring and dazzling comments on social pretentions and he said, ‘trailed fashion first behind me like gold confetti.’ It was heady stuff.”
Her book also explained more about fashion reporting in the 1960s and 1970s that will be helpful in later work on fashion in the women’s pages.
