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Susannah Frankel is a British fashion journalist and writer who, since the 1980s, has worked with a number of newspapers and publications. She was the leading journalist chosen by the
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, to choose the defining
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of 1999. Since 2001, she has also written and co-written a number of books on fashion designers.


Career

Frankel studied English at
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, and was one of the
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alongside Leigh Bowery. She then joined an art and architecture publishers, Academy Editions, where she was assistant to the editorial director. In the late 1980s she became deputy editor of '' BLITZ'' and stayed there until its forced closure in 1991. From 1996 to 1999, Frankel was fashion editor for ''
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'', and then moved to the same role at ''
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'', where she worked until 2012 when she became fashion director for the UK edition of ''
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''. She also worked as fashion director for ''
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'' since its 2001 launch. In November 2015 it was reported that from January 2016, Frankel would be editor-in-chief of ''AnOther''. Frankel has also contributed to '' Dazed & Confused'' since 1998. When
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announced in 2017 that she was stepping down as editor of British ''Vogue'', it was speculated that Frankel might be a contender to succeed her due to her experience and the inclusivity of her vision. In 1999, Frankel was the fashion journalist selected by the
Fashion Museum, Bath The Fashion Museum (known before 2007 as the Museum of Costume) is housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Somerset, England. The collection was started by Doris Langley Moore, who gave her collection of costumes to the city of Bath in 1963. The ...
, to pick out the most representative look for that year for their
Dress of the Year The Dress of the Year is an annual fashion award run by the Fashion Museum, Bath from 1963. Each year since 1963, the Museum has asked a fashion journalist to select a dress or outfit that best represents the most important new ideas in contempor ...
collection. Her choice was an Alexander McQueen lace dress with a moulded leather neck-brace.


Books

Alongside her journalistic work, Frankel has contributed to a number of publications on various designers such as
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, Peter Jensen,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. Her first book, ''Visionaries'', which was published by the
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in 2001, was a collection of her interviews with designers. Frankel was a close and supportive friend of Alexander McQueen from the beginning of his career. She wrote a lengthy introduction-cum-biography for the
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's publication for their McQueen retrospective, ''
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''. She also wrote about McQueen's formative years as a designer in an essay for the book accompanying the Victoria and Albert Museum's subsequent exhibition on the designer. She also collaborated with the photographer Nick Waplington on a book charting the development of McQueen's Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, The Horn Of Plenty. Titled Alexander Mcqueen: Working Process, the book was published to coincide with an exhibition of Waplington's images of McQueen's work at the Tate Britain in the spring of 2015.


Selected bibliography

*''Visionaries: interviews with fashion designers'' (2001, V&A ) *''The House of
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'', by Caroline Evans and Susannah Frankel (2008, Merrell: ) *'' Stephen Jones'' (2016, Rizzoli International Publications: )


References

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