We are thrilled to announce the publication of Fashion Projects #4, available for purchase here and in specialized newsstands and bookstores.

This issue is devoted entirely to the subject of fashion criticism—the first such study devoted to the cultural field. It features extended interviews with leading practitioners of fashion criticism including W editor Stefano Tonchi, International Herald Tribune critic Suzy Menkes, The New Yorker’s Judith Thurman, New York Times writer Guy Trebay, and Robin Givhan, the first fashion critic to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Table of Contents

Editorial Letter

Transdisciplinary Practices: An Interview with Stefano Tonchi by Francesca Granata

Fashion Criticism—A Critical View: An Interview with Robin Givhan by Michelle Labrague

This Is Not a Fashion Critic: An Interview with Guy Trebay by Jay Ruttenberg

“Women’s Work”: An Interview with Judith Thurman by Francesca Granata

Bill Cunningham Multimedia Man by Jay Ruttenberg

Fashion Criticism as Political Critique: An Interview with Lynn Yaeger by Sarah Scaturro

The Critic as Artist: An Interview with Mariuccia Casadio by Marco Pecorari

On Fashion Futures: An Interview with Suzy Menkes by Lucy Collins