Background
Kazanjian, an Armenian-American, was born in 1952 in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Education
She attended Salve Regina College, graduating in 1974, when she joined Vogue for a brief stint as an editorial assistant. Subsequently she studied at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Virginia.
Career
She is the author or co-author of several books and currently is a contributing editor for Vogue magazine and director of Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In 1977 she became a feature writer for the Washington Post, then moved to a similar position with the Washington Star the following year. In 1981 she went to work in the White House as deputy press secretary to First Lady Nancy Reagan, a position she held until 1983, when she became Washington editor of House & Garden magazine and communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts (National Education Association), as well as editor-in-chief of the National Education Association"s magazine, ArtsReview.
Since 1989, she has worked as a contributing editor for Vogue magazine.
In 2005 she also became director of Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In 1995 she became a contributor to The New Yorker magazine, writing several articles for the magazine in the mid-1990s.
The couple lives in New York City.
