Dana thomas

Dana Thomas is the European editor of Condé Nast Portfolio and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by The Penguin Press in 2007.

New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani called Deluxe, “A crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaining as it is informative.”

The Los Angeles Times wrote, “What Fast Food Nation did for food service, this book does for fashion, exposing the underbelly of the $157-billion luxury industry and the lockstep consumer psychology behind its glamorous veneer.”

Thomas was born in February, 1964, in Washington, D.C. She was raised on the Philadelphia Main Line and graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in Communications.

She began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post in Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s. In 1992, she moved to Paris, where she continued to write for The Washington Post. In 1995, she joined the Paris bureau of Newsweek and served as the European cultural and fashion correspondent until 2008.

She has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times in London and serves as the Paris correspondent for Australian Harper's Bazaar.

Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. She taught journalism at the American University of Paris from 1996 to 1999. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Scholarship and the Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism.

She lives in Paris.

External links

* Dana Thomas Official Website[1]
* "The Devil Sells Hermes," Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, August 21, 2007[2]
* "The Devil Sells Prada," Caroline Weber, New York Times Book Review, August 26, 2007 [3]

Category: Authors| American writers | American journalists | Living people | 1964 births