Dana Thomas is an award-winning journalist and bestselling 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 Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by Penguin Press, and Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition, published by Dial Books.
She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and the host of The Green Dream, an award-winning podcast on sustainability. She wrote the screenplay for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, an award-winning feature documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. Distributed by Sony Classics, Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams was nominated for a Critic’s Choice Doc Award in 2022. Her book Deluxe was adapted for the docuseries, Kingdom of Dreams.
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. Thomas 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, Architectural Digest, and British Vogue, where she served as the European Sustainability Editor. She has spoken at a host of major conferences and institutions, including the Aspen Institute, Harvard Business School, the United Nations, and TED.
In 1987, Thomas received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. Thomas is an ambassador for the King’s Foundation, King Charles III’s sustainability center in Scotland. She lives in Paris.
