WRichard Blackwell was an American fashion critic, journalist, television and radio personality, artist, former child actor and former fashion designer, sometimes known just as Mr. Blackwell. He was the creator of the "Ten Worst Dressed Women List", an annual awards presentation he unveiled in January of each year. He published the "Fabulous Fashion Independents" list and an annual Academy Awards fashion review, both of which receive somewhat less media attention. His partner of sixty years, Beverly Hills hairdresser Robert L. Spencer, was also his manager. He wrote two books, Mr. Blackwell: 30 Years of Fashion Fiascos and an autobiography, From Rags to Bitches.
WDaphne Louise Blunt is an American actress, singer, web television presenter and fashion blogger. Blunt is known for her work on television shows such as The Young and the Restless, The Thundermans, Uncle Buck and Nickelodeon's The Dunes Club. She was the face of Fanlala.com, where she regularly interviewed celebrities on the red carpet, anchored Fanlala's web TV news show The Feed, and starred in her own fashion and style show, Daphne's Look of the Week. She currently runs a personal fashion blog known as To Style, With Love.
WEleanor Hoyt Brainerd was an American author of the early 20th century. She published at least 10 novels, mostly written for young women.
WPeter Braunstein is an American former journalist, writer, and playwright who became infamous for committing an October 31, 2005, rape and leading police on a multistate manhunt until his capture and self-injury in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 16, 2005.
WJoan Juliet Buck is an American writer and actress. She was the editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001, the only American ever to have edited a French magazine. She was contributing editor to Vogue and Vanity Fair for many years, and writes for Harper's Bazaar. The author of two novels, she published a memoir, The Price of Illusion, in March 2017.
WPaul Johnson Calderon is an American writer, television personality, and socialite known for starring alongside Tinsley Mortimer in The CW's 2010 television series High Society.
WWilliam John Cunningham Jr. was an American fashion photographer for the New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.
WMichaela Angela Davis is a writer on African-American style, race, gender and hip-hop culture in the United States. She is also a fashion expert and an "image activist."
WEllen Louise Demorest was a US fashion arbiter. She was a successful milliner, widely credited for inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns. With her husband, William Jennings Demorest, she established a company to sell the patterns, which were adaptations of the latest French fashions, and a magazine to promote them (1860). Her dressmaking patterns made French styles accessible to ordinary women, thus greatly influencing US fashion.
WTavi Gevinson is an American writer, magazine editor, and actress. She came to public attention at the age of 12 due to her fashion blog Style Rookie. By the age of 15, she had shifted her focus to pop culture and feminist discussion.
WRobin Givhan is a fashion editor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer.
WSharon Haver is a New York City-based Syndicated Fashion Columnist, fashion stylist, and entrepreneur.
WElizabeth Hawes was an American clothing designer, outspoken critic of the fashion industry, and champion of ready to wear and people's right to have the clothes they desired, rather than the clothes dictated to be fashionable, an idea encapsulated in her book Fashion Is Spinach, published in 1938. She was among the first Americans to establish their reputations outside of Paris haute couture. In addition to her work in the fashion industry as a sketcher, copyist, stylist, and journalist, and designer, she was an author, union organizer, champion of gender equality, and political activist.
WCathy Horyn is an American fashion critic and journalist who worked for The New York Times from 1998 until 2014 where she had the highly noted and provocative blog On The Runway. In 2015, she was appointed critic-at-large for New York Magazine's website The Cut, reviewing the Fall 2015 womenswear shows in New York and Paris. Horyn was only the second New York Times fashion critic, having succeeded Amy Spindler who retired in November 2003. She is a supporter of Belgian designer Raf Simons.
WJessi Jae Joplin is an American singer, fashion blogger, model, journalist, and stylist. She is the lead vocalist and songwriter of pop-rock band The Ruckus, a Buzznet Buzzmaker, and founder of fashion blog/vintage store The Fabulous Stains.
WAudrey Lynn Kitching is an American fashion blogger, model, and fashion designer. known for her "pink hair and Lisa Frank vibe". Kitching dated Panic! at the Disco's lead vocalist Brendon Urie in 2005.
WSimonetta Lein is a TV personality, TV host, model and businesswoman.
WStacy London is an American stylist/fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor known primarily for her time as co-host on What Not to Wear, a reality television program that featured wardrobe and appearance makeovers. After graduating from Vassar College, London started her career as a fashion editor at Vogue and transitioned into being a stylist for celebrities and designers. She moved into television by co-hosting What Not to Wear with Clinton Kelly, and doing fashion reporting for Access Hollywood, The Early Show, and the Today Show. From 2009–2010, she was a celebrity spokesperson for Pantene, Woolite, Dr. Scholl's, and Riders by Lee. She co-owns Style for Hire and is the creative director of Westfield Style.
WCaitlin Elizabeth Marnell is an American writer and socialite based in New York City. She was a beauty editor at Lucky and XoJane, wrote a column for Vice, and has also written for SELF, Nylon, Glamour. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir How To Murder Your Life, which was published in 2017.
WLeandra Medine Cohen is an American author, blogger, and humor writer best known for Man Repeller, an independent fashion and lifestyle website.
WWednesday Mourning works primarily in the fields of acting and alternative modeling. She specializes in the Goth subculture and has been influential in goth fashion, as well as being the celebrity spokesmodel for Atelier Gothique and appearing as a model for the band My Chemical Romance's CD Welcome To The Black Parade. She was awarded 2010 Goth Day Model of the year, LA Weekly’s Goth Girl of the Week, and since 2012, Mourning has been a co-star on Oddities: San Francisco, a Science Channel program. Mourning is also curator of an esoteric bookstore, Orphic Vellum Books, the only one of its kind in the U.S., and has appeared in several publications including Gothic Beauty, Elle Magazine and writing contributor for Celtic Family Magazine.
WGlenn O'Brien was an American writer who focused largely on the subjects of art, music and fashion. He was featured for many years as "The Style Guy" in GQ magazine, and published a book with that title.
WBarbara "Babe" Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American socialite and style icon, whose second husband was the founder of CBS, William S. Paley. She was known by the nickname "Babe" for most of her life. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958.
WDiane Pernet is a Paris-based American-born international fashion blogger and critic and founder of the international ASVOFF festival.
WKristin Prim is an American fashion designer, visual artist, and publisher. She is the founder and designer of luxury lingerie house, Lenoir, and the publisher of The Provocateur. Previously, she was the editor in chief and founder of A23, The Advisor, and Prim Magazine. Prim attended Parsons School of Design, where she majored in Design and Management.
WFlorence "Flo" Pritchett, also known as Florence Pritchett Smith, was an American fashion editor, journalist, and radio and TV personality.
WEdith Louise Rosenbaum Russell was an American fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, best remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic with a music box in the shape of a pig. The papier-mâché toy, covered in pigskin and playing a tune known as "The Maxixe" when its tail was twisted, was used by Edith Russell to calm frightened children in the lifeboat in which she escaped. Her story became widely known in the press at the time and was later included in the best-selling account of the disaster A Night to Remember by Walter Lord. Russell was also portrayed in the award-winning British docudrama produced by William MacQuitty that was based on Lord's book.
WNastassia Bianca Schroeder Clark is an American television personality, podcast host, fashion blogger, model and author. She is best known from the reality television series Vanderpump Rules.
WScott Schuman is an American blogger and fashion photographer who created The Sartorialist fashion blog.
WCameron Silver is the Fashion Director of the Halston brand. H by Halston launched on QVC in September 2015, with Silver as its on-air pitchman. Silver is known for being an American vintage retailer that founded Decades, a vintage couture boutique in Los Angeles, California. Named one of Time Magazine’s “25 Most Influential Names and Faces in Fashion” in 2002, he is frequently showcased in tabloid fashion talk shows as well as in national and international magazines. In 2013, the first season of his Bravo reality television series Dukes of Melrose debuted.
WTatiana Sorokko is a Russian-born American model, fashion journalist and haute couture collector. She walked the runways for the world's most prominent designers and fashion houses, appeared on covers of leading fashion magazines, and became the first Russian model of the post-Soviet period to gain international recognition. After modeling, Sorokko worked as contributing editor for such publications as Vogue, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar. Her distinct personal style and her private collection of historically important haute couture clothing were subjects of museum exhibitions in Russia and the U.S.
WLucy Sykes Rellie is a British-American entrepreneur, fashion executive, independent consultant and socialite based in New York City. She is most known for being the fashion director of Marie Claire from 2001 to 2007 and the fashion director of Rent the Runway from 2011 to 2012.
WAndré Leon Talley is an American fashion journalist, the former American editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. He was the magazine's fashion news director from 1983 to 1987 and then its creative director from 1988 to 1995. He has authored three books, including two memoirs, and co-authored a book with Richard Bernstein. Talley has also served as international editor of the Russian fashion magazine Numéro.
WDiana Vreeland was a French-American columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, being the editor-in-chief of the latter, and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.
WDame Anna Wintour is a British-American journalist and editor who has been editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988 and artistic director for Condé Nast, Vogue's publisher, since 2013. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour has become an important figure in much of the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and her support for younger designers. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour".
WLynn Yaeger is a contributing fashion editor to Vogue.com and a contributing writer to Vogue. She is a former fashion reporter for The Village Voice, having worked for the paper for 30 years. Her column, "Elements of Style", was renamed "Frock Star" in February 2007. Yaeger is also a regular contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Style Magazine, the American edition of Vogue magazine, Travel & Leisure, and countless antiques & collectibles dealers.