Black speaks up in Fashion Journalism

Robin Givhan

                                      Robin Givhan (born 1965) is the former fashion editor for The Washington Post. She left The Washington Post in 2010 and is is now the fashion critic and fashion correspondent for The Daily Beast and News Week. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, the first such time for a fashion writer. The Pulitzer Committee explained its rationale by noting Givhan's "witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."

The native of Detroit, Michigan was valedictorian at Renaissance High School in 1982, graduated from Princeton University in 1986, and holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After working for the Detroit Free Press for about seven years, she held positions at the San Francisco Chronicle and Vogue magazine. She has been employed on and off with The Post for more than 10 years. She moved from New York City to Washington, D.C. in 2009 where her fashion beat was expanded to also cover First Lady Michelle Obama.

Constance White

Adjunct Associate Professor, Visual Communication (1989). BFA, 1972, University of Illinois, Urbana-


Champaign; MS, 1979, Illinois Institute of Technology. Concurrent Position: Designer/Principal, 


Constance White Design. Exhibitions: University of Redlands, California; University of Central 


Arkansas, Conway, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; WomanMade Gallery, Chicago; Krannert Art 


Museum, Champaign, IL; Poetry Society of America, NY; Northern Illinois University Art Museum, 


DeKalb. Publications: Fold: the Reader; Visible Language. Awards: Illinois Arts Council.

Teri Agins

Round Table interview with Black Journalist