Vanessa Victoria Friedman (born December 4, 1967)
is Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic at ''
The New York Times
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''. Previously, Friedman has worked at numerous other publications including the Financial Times, the New Yorker, American Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
Immediately preceding her appointment at the Financial Times, Friedman was the features and fashion features editor of InStyle, when the title was launched in the United Kingdom in 2000. Prior to this, she was an arts contributor for The Economist and the European editor-at-large for US Elle.
Education
Friedman is Jewish and was born in New York to
Stephen J. Friedman, a lawyer, and Fredrica Friedman (), a literary manager.
She has a younger brother named Alexander.
Friedman graduated
cum laude
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from
Princeton University
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where she studied history, European cultural studies, and creative writing.
She is also a graduate of
Phillips Exeter Academy
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, location = 20 Main Street
, city = Exeter, New Hampshire
, zipcode ...
and
The Chapin School
Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan.
History
Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origin ...
.
Career
In 1998, Friedman was published in ''
The New Yorker
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