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Vanessa Victoria Friedman (born December 4, 1967) is an American fashion journalist who has served as the fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times since 2014. She previously worked at other publications, including the Financial Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
Immediately preceding her appointment at the Financial Times, Friedman was the features and fashion features editor of InStyle, when the title was launched in the United Kingdom in 2000. Prior to this, she was an arts contributor for The Economist and the European editor-at-large for US Elle.