Dana Thomas is the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and the New York Times best seller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. Thomas began her career writing for the Style section of the Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She is currently editor-at-large for Vogue Business, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Style section. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Architectural Digest. In 2016, the French minister of culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, and in 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Paris.