Background
Dana Thomas was born on February 3, 1964, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. She is the daughter of Charles H. and Susie Strackbein Thomas.
1995
Dana Thomas with Le Grand Hubert in 1995.
2005
5514 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States
Dana Thomas with Joyle Arad, and Irena Medavoy at Ace Gallery on February 23, 2005.
2008
Dana Thomas with Ben Chang at the tents in Bryant Park during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on September 6, 2008, in New York City.
2015
Dana Thomas in 2015.
2015
1008 Elden Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Dana Thomas at Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills in October 2015.
2015
Dana Thomas with Stephen Dunbar Johnson at the cocktail party for T Magazine at the US Ambassador's Residence in Paris on March 7, 2015. Photo by Joe Schildhorn.
2015
Dana Thomas at Politics and Prose in 2015.
2015
Dana Thomas on April 3, 2015. Photo by Gabi Zayas.
2015
1008 Elden Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Dana Thomas at Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills in October 2015.
130 King of Prussia Rd, Wayne, PA 19087, United States
Radnor High School where Dana Thomas studied.
4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States
American University where Dana Thomas received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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516 Drayton St, Savannah, GA 31401, United States
Dana Thomas signing books for students at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
159 Main St, East Hampton, NY 11937, United States
Dana Thomas with Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan at the Authors Night.
Dana Thomas. Photo by John Shearer.
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres which Dana Thomas received in 2016.
(Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristo...)
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don't want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-How-Luxury-Lost-Luster/dp/0143113704/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(In the mid-1990s, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen exp...)
In the mid-1990s, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen exploded onto a fashion scene that was in an artistic and economic rut. They were icons of a new generation of rock-star designers who headlined the transformation of luxury fashion from a small clutch of family-owned businesses into a global, multibillion-dollar corporate industry. But the pace was unsustainable. In 2010, McQueen took his own life. A year later, Galliano was fired in the wake of an alcohol-fueled, anti-Semitic diatribe. In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed fashion journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of two unforgettable artists. In so doing, she pulls back the curtain on the revolution that has remade high fashion over the last two decades - and the price it demanded from the very ones who saved it.
https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Kings-Alexander-McQueen-Galliano/dp/0143128396/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions...)
What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property - and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Bestselling journalist Dana Thomas has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion.
https://www.amazon.com/Fashionopolis-Price-Fashion-Future-Clothes/dp/0735224013/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Dana Thomas was born on February 3, 1964, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. She is the daughter of Charles H. and Susie Strackbein Thomas.
Dana Thomas studied at Radnor High School and graduated in 1981. Then she received a Bachelor of Arts degree at American University in 1988.
Dana Thomas began her career in 1988 writing for the Style section of The Washington Post. From 1995 to 2011, she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris and has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Architectural Digest and Elle Décor. She taught journalism at The American University of Paris from 1996 till 1999. Thomas was the European editor of Condé Nast Portfolio. She was also the European editor of Conde Nast Portfolio from 2008 till 2009. She served as a contributing editor for the Wall Street Journal's monthly style magazine in 2011-2012 and T: The New York Times Style Magazine from 2012 to 2017.
Now Dana Thomas is a regular contributor to The New York Times Styles section and the Paris correspondent for Harper's Bazaar Australia. She is an author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (2007). The book examines the corporate consolidation of small family-run luxury businesses into luxury goods holding companies, and their process of "democratizing" luxury by making it available for sale to the masses in the forms of handbags, clothing, and accessories. In 2015 she published the book Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. It's a double biography on the lives of two heralded British fashion designers, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. The title is a Biblical reference, from the Old Testament.
Thomas' recent published book is Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes (2019). In this book, she investigated the damage to our planet and the world's labor force by "fast fashion" - the mass production of trendy, inexpensive garments with a lightning-quick turnaround. It’s about the backlash against globalization, the return to craftsmanship, the importance of sustainability and circularity.
(In the mid-1990s, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen exp...)
2015(Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristo...)
2007(What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions...)
2019Dana Thomas' interest in fast fashion is the result of conversations and ongoing dialogues with friends and colleagues in the industry about one part of the equation, which led Thomas to see sustainability as an intersection of ideas and issues in the contemporary world of fashion.
Quotations:
"God bless Martin Margiela. I think he was the designer with the most integrity in the last 30 years because it wasn’t about him, it was about the work."
"Not everybody reads poetry or listens to music, but every single person in the world gets up in the morning and puts on something, and whether you like it or not, that’s a statement about who you are."
"Real luxurious people hate status. You don’t look rich because you have a rich dress. When you look at a person, do you see the spirit or the sexiness or the creativity? Just to see a big diamond, what does it mean? It’s all about satisfaction. I think it’s horrible, this judgment based on money. It’s all an illusion that you look better because you have a symbol of luxury. Really, it doesn’t bring you anything. It’s so banal."
Dana Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. In 2017, Thomas was a fellow at the Logan Nonfiction Program of the Carey Institute for Global Good.
Dana Thomas considers her best purchase the four little white cotton T-shirts she bought in 1992 and still wears today. There are seven or eight pairs of jeans in her closet, some were bought in the 1980s. When buying clothes, she looks for quality and style.
She has an organic vegetable garden and two laying hens. She bikes around Paris and London when it's not raining. She rents clothes for public appearances. She shops at farmers' markets and buys organic whenever possible. She always takes a basket, a canvas bag or her caddy to the store. If there's a travel choice of plane or train, she takes the train.
Dana Thomas married Hervé d'Halluin on October 3, 1992. They have a child Lucie Lee d'Halluin.