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Tim Blanks

Editor-at-Large

Tim Blanks has been Editor-at-Large of The Business of Fashion since 2016. He covers fashion's personalities, as well as the seasonal runway shows. During the prior decade, he fulfilled the same function at Condé Nast’s Style.com. From 1989 to 2005, Tim hosted the CBC’s globally syndicated show Fashion File. In 2013, he received the Media Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Fashion Week

Clash of the New Titans

Haider at Tom Ford, Pieter at Alaïa, comings and goings in fashion, and Nico at Courrèges coming up fast, all of it leading to a day of dynamic fashion in Paris, writes Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Clash of the New Titans

Haider at Tom Ford, Pieter at Alaïa, comings and goings in fashion, and Nico at Courrèges coming up fast, all of it leading to a day of dynamic fashion in Paris, writes Tim Blanks.


Fashion Week

Paris Day Two: Monument Men

Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Anthony Vaccarello at Saint Laurent liberate legacies, writes Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Paris Day Two: Monument Men

Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Anthony Vaccarello at Saint Laurent liberate legacies, writes Tim Blanks.


Fashion Week

Let’s Get Physical: Getting to Grips with Demna’s New Gucci

The hottest show in Milan confounded those seeking a clear answer to the question: can Demna save Gucci? What we got was an urgent meditation on beauty and sex. ‘Clear and attractive and hot. More than ever, I need fashion to be like that for me,’ the designer told Tim Blanks, ‘and Gucci is a perfect place for it.’

Fashion Week

Let’s Get Physical: Getting to Grips with Demna’s New Gucci

The hottest show in Milan confounded those seeking a clear answer to the question: can Demna save Gucci? What we got was an urgent meditation on beauty and sex. ‘Clear and attractive and hot. More than ever, I need fashion to be like that for me,’ the designer told Tim Blanks, ‘and Gucci is a perfect place for it.’


Fashion Week

Did Meryll Rogge Capture the Spirit of Marni?

Yes, she did. The designer owed one of her happy fashion places to Consuelo Castiglioni, but she never imagined she’d one day take her place.

Fashion Week

Did Meryll Rogge Capture the Spirit of Marni?

Yes, she did. The designer owed one of her happy fashion places to Consuelo Castiglioni, but she never imagined she’d one day take her place.


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Fashion Week

Burberry Celebrates the Darkness

It never rained, but it poured in Daniel Lee’s London Fashion Week closer on Monday night, writes Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Burberry Celebrates the Darkness

It never rained, but it poured in Daniel Lee’s London Fashion Week closer on Monday night, writes Tim Blanks.


Luxury

20 Years of Erdem: London’s Indie Survivor

How designer Erdem Moralioğlu’s label has outlived peers, surviving Brexit and the bankruptcies of Barneys, Matches and Saks with a consistent and soulful signature rooted in a fascination with the feminine, the tension between control and ‘undone-ness’ and an obsession with beauty.

Luxury

20 Years of Erdem: London’s Indie Survivor

How designer Erdem Moralioğlu’s label has outlived peers, surviving Brexit and the bankruptcies of Barneys, Matches and Saks with a consistent and soulful signature rooted in a fascination with the feminine, the tension between control and ‘undone-ness’ and an obsession with beauty.


Fashion Week

The Beating Heart of Haute Couture

IT’S ALIVE! in the dreamweaving hands of Alessandro Michele at Valentino and Daniel Roseberry at Schiaparelli, reports Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

The Beating Heart of Haute Couture

IT’S ALIVE! in the dreamweaving hands of Alessandro Michele at Valentino and Daniel Roseberry at Schiaparelli, reports Tim Blanks.


Fashion Week

Blazy’s Chanel Couture Was a Slam Dunk!

Who knew an inspiration as unlikely as ‘bird on a mushroom’ could unleash such a torrent of creativity, reports Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Blazy’s Chanel Couture Was a Slam Dunk!

Who knew an inspiration as unlikely as ‘bird on a mushroom’ could unleash such a torrent of creativity, reports Tim Blanks.


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Fashion Week

Another Day, Another Dior Debut for Jonathan Anderson

A schedule that, on paper, looks like it would try the patience of a saint produced a couture show that was anything but in a beautiful synthesis of two very distinct design sensibilities, reports Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Another Day, Another Dior Debut for Jonathan Anderson

A schedule that, on paper, looks like it would try the patience of a saint produced a couture show that was anything but in a beautiful synthesis of two very distinct design sensibilities, reports Tim Blanks.


Creative Class

Exclusive: Véronique Nichanian’s Hermès Exit Interview

On the eve of her final runway show after 38 years at Hermès, Nichanian sits down with Tim Blanks to discuss her life at the French luxury powerhouse, designing for men as a woman, the ‘magic’ the fashion industry has lost, her successor Grace Wales Bonner and what comes next.

Creative Class

Exclusive: Véronique Nichanian’s Hermès Exit Interview

On the eve of her final runway show after 38 years at Hermès, Nichanian sits down with Tim Blanks to discuss her life at the French luxury powerhouse, designing for men as a woman, the ‘magic’ the fashion industry has lost, her successor Grace Wales Bonner and what comes next.


Luxury

Valentino, Italy’s Fashion ‘Emperor,’ Has Died

A master of breathtakingly beautiful eveningwear, the couturier turned a startup label into one of the world’s best known fashion brands.

Luxury

Valentino, Italy’s Fashion ‘Emperor,’ Has Died

A master of breathtakingly beautiful eveningwear, the couturier turned a startup label into one of the world’s best known fashion brands.


Creative Class

Antony Price: The Greatest Designer You May Never Have Heard Of

The late Price was often overlooked, but his work for Roxy Music helped to create one of the great before-and-after stylistic schisms in the history of popular music and power a new wave in fashion, writes Tim Blanks.

Creative Class

Antony Price: The Greatest Designer You May Never Have Heard Of

The late Price was often overlooked, but his work for Roxy Music helped to create one of the great before-and-after stylistic schisms in the history of popular music and power a new wave in fashion, writes Tim Blanks.