fashion
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Detroit Fashion Editor Yvonne Petrie
A fashion editor I discovered this summer was Yvonne Petrie of the Detroit News. She started at the newspaper in 1953 and began covering fashion the next year. A native of Indiana, she attended the University of Chicago and Indiana University. She won a Penney-Missouri Award for fashion reporting in 1964. She gave an interesting speech about fashion journalism when she went to Missouri to get her award. She regularly covered the New York City, California, Honolulu and European fashion shows.
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Milwaukee Fashion Editor Aileen Ryan
A favorite Milwaukee fashion journalist is the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist. 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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Pittsburgh fashion editor Barbara Cloud
I just came upon Barbara Cloud – the now retired fashion editor several Pennsylvania newspapers, including the now-defunct Pittsburgh Press and the Post-Gazette. Most women’s pages included a fashion editor. 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…
