This issue is devoted entirely to the subject of fashion criticism—the first such study devoted to the cultural field. It features extended interviews with leading practitioners of fashion criticism including W editor Stefano Tonchi, International Herald Tribune critic Suzy Menkes, The New Yorker’s Judith Thurman, New York Times writer Guy Trebay, and Robin Givhan, the first fashion critic to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Table of Contents

Editorial Letter

Transdisciplinary Practices: An Interview with Stefano Tonchi by Francesca Granata

Fashion Criticism—A Critical View: An Interview with Robin Givhan by Michelle Labrague

This Is Not a Fashion Critic: An Interview with Guy Trebay by Jay Ruttenberg

“Women’s Work”: An Interview with Judith Thurman by Francesca Granata

Bill Cunningham Multimedia Man by Jay Ruttenberg

Fashion Criticism as Political Critique: An Interview with Lynn Yaeger by Sarah Scaturro

The Critic as Artist: An Interview with Mariuccia Casadio by Marco Pecorari

On Fashion Futures: An Interview with Suzy Menkes by Lucy Collins