Dana Thomas is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster" and the European Arts & Entertainment Correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She has written about style for the New York Times Magazine since 1994, and has contributed to various publications, including The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times in London. She is the Paris correspondent for Australian Harper's Bazaar, and a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. Thomas taught journalism at The American University of Paris from 1996 to 1999. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Scholarship and the Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. She lives in Paris with her husband, Hervé, and their seven-year-old daughter, Lucie Lee.

photo by Alice Springs

Blog Entries by Dana Thomas

The Party's Over

Posted August 7, 2009 | 12:02 PM (EST)


Fashion, it seems, has gone out of fashion. Companies are reporting record losses for the first half of 2009, several are filing bankruptcy -- the most high profile being the French couture house of Christian Lacroix, and fashion magazines are in a panic over the drop in ad page sales....

Read Post

The Red Carpet and Luxury Brands: Selling the Dream

Posted January 9, 2008 | 11:23 AM (EST)


The cancellation of the Golden Globes Awards ceremony this weekend will severely hurt the Los Angeles local economy, which is already ailing from the on-going writer's strike. Parties won't be thrown. Champagne won't be swilled. Limos won't be rented. Hotel rooms and restaurant tables won't be booked. Instead, everyone from...

Read Post