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Suzy Menkes, OBE (born 24 December 1943) is a British journalist and esteemed fashion critic. Formerly fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune, Menkes is now International Fashion Editor for nineteen international editions of ''Vogue'' online. ==Biography== Menkes was born in the UK. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School. As a teenager in the 1960s, she moved to Paris to study dressmaking at at the Chambre Syndicale fashion school. Her landlady gained her entry into her first couture show at Nina Ricci, which sparked her interest in high fashion. Menkes now lives in Paris, is widowed and has three sons and three granddaughters. She holds the Legion d'Honneur in France and a British OBE.〔(International Herald Tribune biography (PDF) )〕 Menkes is Jewish.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/fashion/when-high-holy-days-and-fashion-clash.html?〕 On her return from Paris, she read history and English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge while her sister studied at Oxford. After Cambridge, she worked for ''The Times'' reporting on fashion. In addition to her journalism, she has written several books, particularly on British Royal style. Menkes professes to admire "good journalism",〔http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/suzy-menkes-the-observers〕 especially the work of Prudence Glynn at the ''Times of London'' and Eugenia Sheppard of the ''New York Herald Tribune''. After leaving Cambridge in 1966, where she was the first woman who signed up to work for ''Varsity'', the university's newspaper, she joined ''The Times'' as a junior reporter. At age 24, Menkes took her first job as a fashion journalist at the ''London Evening Standard'', where she had been recruited by editor Charles Wintour, who became her mentor. Then, she joined the ''Daily Express'', before returning to The Times, where she met her late husband and father of her three sons, David Spanier. She left ''The Times'' and joined ''The Independent'' in 1987, which she later left for the ''International Herald Tribune'' in 1988. After 25 years commenting on fashion at ''The International Herald Tribune'', she left in 2014 saying that: In 2015, Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International appointed her the online voice of Vogue's international editions, working as "a critic and reporter on Vogue's websites across the world".〔http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/mar/03/suzy-menkes-herald-tribune-vogue〕 She's also responsible for organizing Condé Nast International's annual Luxury Conference.〔http://www.cniluxury.com/#about〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suzy Menkes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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