Dana Thomas(II)
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Dana Thomas is an award-winning journalist, a bestselling author, and screenwriter.
She wrote the script for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, an award-winning feature documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, and was released in the US by Sony Classics in 2022. She was the story editor for Kingdom of Dreams, a four-part docuseries based on her New York Times bestselling book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by Penguin Press. It premiered on Sky in the UK in Oct. 2022.
Thomase is also the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes and Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, both published by Penguin Press, and and Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition, published by Dial Books. She is the European Sustainability Editor for British Vogue, a freelance contributor to the New York Times, and the host of "The Green Dream," a bi-weekly podcast on sustainability, produced by Talkbox Studio.
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, and Architectural Digest. In 1987, she 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. And in 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Paris.
She wrote the script for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, an award-winning feature documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, and was released in the US by Sony Classics in 2022. She was the story editor for Kingdom of Dreams, a four-part docuseries based on her New York Times bestselling book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by Penguin Press. It premiered on Sky in the UK in Oct. 2022.
Thomase is also the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes and Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, both published by Penguin Press, and and Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition, published by Dial Books. She is the European Sustainability Editor for British Vogue, a freelance contributor to the New York Times, and the host of "The Green Dream," a bi-weekly podcast on sustainability, produced by Talkbox Studio.
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, and Architectural Digest. In 1987, she 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. And in 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Paris.
