Tim Blanks (born ) is a

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fashion journalist, broadcaster and writer.

Career

Blanks is the former host of the television show ''

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'', which he hosted from 1989 until 2006. He worked as editor-at-large for

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, where he hosted Throwback Thursdays, a fashion retrospective. In 2015, he became Editor-at-Large of fashion website ''The Business of Fashion''. Blanks has written for a number of international magazines and newspapers, including Another, LOVE, Interview,

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and System. He is the author of

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and Versace Catwalk and has also contributed to monographs on, among others,

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and

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. In 2013, he was honored by the

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with its Media Award, the industry’s top award for fashion journalism. In 2017, Blanks became

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of the Master in Fashion Critique and Curation at Polimoda fashion school in Florence, Italy.

Personal life

Blanks was born in

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. He left the country in 1974. Blanks has lived with his partner Jeff Lounds, a

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specialist, in

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, England since 1990.

References

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