Pittsburgh Fashion Editor Barbara Cloud
Today I am writing about Barbara Cloud – the late fashion editor several Pennsylvania newspapers, including the now-defunct Pittsburgh Press and the Post-Gazette.
In a magazine profile she said:“Not being schooled in fashion writing,” says Cloud—who would later serve as fashion editor of The Pittsburgh Press for 33 years—“possibly allowed me to open up with more personal observations. That’s what I found interesting. When I want to share a story with readers, I begin to write as if I am writing a letter to a friend and I want them to know what or who I have just seen.” And Cloud has seen and has interviewed some amazingly interesting people—everyone from Joan Crawford and Nancy Reagan to Smokey Burgess and Ralph Lauren.”
She is in the Pittsburgh Fashion Week Hall of Fame.
I conducted two email interviews with her.
