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The Longevity of Tim Blanks: A Beacon in Fashion

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Episode Highlights
  • Starting out: Starting university at age 15 helped him evade bullying and launched his experience of making “all those mistakes that change your life.”
  • Connecting with fashion: Tim’s limited exposure to fashion while coming into adulthood in New Zealand when he realized images had the power to shock or amaze.
  • First rung: A detour into filmmaking in Canada eventually morphed into freelance writing and, ultimately, a full-time gig at a fashion magazine and a high-visibility role hosting the global TV show Fashion File.
  • Staying fresh: Keeping something of an outsider’s perspective has helped blunt any cynicism about the fashion industry.
  • Inside-outsider: The curiosity—and an eye inspired by filmmaking—has defined Tim’s unique approach to fashion’s personalities and untold stories.
  • Reflecting and projecting: Fashion has a dual role as a mirror of culture and a harbinger of social trends on the horizon.
  • Wake-up call: The necessary evolution of fashion photography—sensitized, at t

    “A strange sense of loss seeps from fashion for Fall 2015,” wrote Tim Blanks of the A/W15 Alexander McQueen show on style.com. “Maybe it was the mourning exhibition at the Met; maybe it's being fed by binge-watching Penny Dreadful or, for the more arcane among us, The Crimson Petal and the White.” One of the many pleasures of reading something by Blanks is seeing how deftly he sneaks in both high and low references into his work, able to distill a collection with his sharp, concise style whilst at the same time placing it into a wider cultural context. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Blanks first came to prominence as host of Canada’s Fashion File and this year marks a 30-year career in fashion that culminated in winning the Eugenia Sheppard Media Award at the 2013 CFDA Awards, the prestigious industry award for fashion journalism. While he continues as contributing editor-at-large on Another Man and contributes to various other blue chip titles, it’s his widely anticipated show reviews as editor-at-large for style.com that the industry awaits each season. With the recent news that

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