fashion journalism
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Day Three of Favorite Newspaper Fashion Editors: Eleni Epstein
Eleni Epstein was the fashion editor of the Washington Star for more than three decades. She was a native of Washington, D.C. who attended George Washington University and Columbia University. During World War II she began her journalism career as a copy assistant at the Washington Star and was promoted to the position of fashion editor at age 21. Her internationally syndicated articles covered the fashion markets of Milan, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Her position as fashion editor lasted more than 35 years until 1981 when the Star ceased publication. She received many awards for her interpretive writing and her contributions to the fashion industry. In 1960 she…
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Day Two of Favorite Newspaper Fashion Editors: Judy Lunn
Judy Lunn was the fashion editor of the Houston Post – one of the four “fs” of the women’s pages. Fashion was part of her family’s history. Her grandfather was a furrier. Her aunt was a lingerie designer who created a trousseau for Elizabeth Taylor when she married Eddie Fisher and a maternity gown for Lucille Ball. Lunn won her first writing award at age nine for a story on fire prevention. And while she had a knack for writing, it was fashion that caught her interest. She graduated a year early from Hunter High School in New York City. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design to study…
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Day One of Favorite Newspaper Fashion Editors: Aileen Ryan
This week I will be blogging about my favorite newspaper fashion editors – beginning with the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the Kansas City Star, where she had pioneered a new method of covering…
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In Memory of Fashion Journalist Barbara Cloud
I was sad to learn that longtime Pittsburgh fashion editor Barbara Cloud has died. Here is her obituary:“Her crisp, vibrant writing matched her fashion sense, said John Robinson Block, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Post-Gazette. “She was one of the most gifted newspaper writers that I think I’ve known over many years. She was of the older school of journalism, characterized by the clarity of how they wrote,” he said.” I had conducted several email interviews with Barbara and her opinions on designers, department stores and fashion journalism. I am completing an article about Barbara for a history journal. I was so sad to learn of her death.
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Guest Blog Post: The Quotable Eugenia Sheppard
(Editor’s note: This is a guest post by talented UCF journalism student Baileigh Johnson. She has interned at several publications including Marie Claire Magazine and Orlando Magazine. She shares my interest in fashion journalism. Here is her blog.) On November 12, 1984, six years before I was born, and 28 years before I would learn her name, The New York Times ran an obituary, Section B, Page 15, titled “Eugenia Sheppard, Fashion Columnist, Dies.” This was the first article I ever read about Eugenia Sheppard, as well as the first indication of a thought that is now a reality: I had found my icon. A research opportunity secured this thought,…
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New York Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard
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New Eugenia Sheppard Image
I just came across this photo of the great fashion writer Eugenia Sheppard – who is on the far left. It was taken in 1964 after designer Pauline Trigere’s fashion show in New York City. I have unearthed some great sources about Sheppard lately. Sheppard covered fashion for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1960s.
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