SUZY MENKES will receive the Special Recognition Award at the British Fashion Awards on Monday, December 2. The honour celebrates her 25-year career at the International Herald Tribune, now The International New York Times.
"Suzy is the fastest mover in the west - or east," said Sarah Mower, BFC ambassador for emerging talent. "I have only ever beaten her to the race backstage about three times in 15 years. The brain under that front-roll is a phenomenon. I'm in awe of the agenda-setting pieces she pens between Milan and Paris which both interrogate fashion's motives and put it in its rightful cultural and economic place. Besides that, she's the greatest defender of journalistic integrity, the greatest inspiration and the naughtiest wit I know."
After graduating from Cambridge, having been the university newspaper's first female editor, Menkes went on to work for The Times, The Evening Standard and The Independent, before joining the IHT in 1988. She holds the Legion d'Honneur in France and a British OBE.
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