Meredith Etherington-Smith

Meredith EtheringtonSmith née Dups 1946 25 January 2020 was a British fashion and art journalist and biographer She was born in Wales in 1946 and grew up in Kent She attended the Royal College of Art Her career as a journalist began in the 1960s and by the 1970s she was London editor for Vogue Paris and for a year the only female editor of the American mens magazine GQ After relocating back to London in the early 1980s she wrote for a wide range of publications including The Times The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times before taking the post of Deputy and Features editor at Harpers Queen in 1983 As a representative of the magazine she was the fashion journalist asked to choose the Dress of the Year for 1994 for which she picked a black biascut strapless dress by John Galliano By the early 1990s EtheringtonSmith was established as an art journalist She was a founder of Art Fortnight and has been an editor of ArtReview In 2006 she was editorinchief of Christies Magazine and the London editor of Artinfocom Whilst at Christies EtheringtonSmith worked with Diana Princess of Wales regarding the charity auction of her clothes in 1997 and also curated the 1999 sale of Marilyn Monroes clothing and personal effects and the 2011 auction of Elizabeth Taylors wardrobe and jewels As a biographer EtheringtonSmith has written about the fashion designer Lucy Lady DuffGordon and her sister novelist Elinor Glyn in The It Girls and about Salvador Dalí in The Persistence of Memory which was translated into twelve languages EtheringtonSmith died from a heart attack in January 2020 at the age of 73 Source Article Meredith EtheringtonSmith from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30