Writing

Meredith Etherington-Smith

Meredith Etherington-Smith (née Dups, 1946 – 25 January 2020) was a British fashion and art journalist and biographer. She was born in Wales in 1946, and grew up in Kent. She attended the Royal College of Art. Her career as a journalist began in the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was London editor for Vogue Paris and for a year the only female editor of the American men's magazine GQ. After relocating back to London in the early 1980s, she wrote for a wide range of publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The New York Times, before taking the post of Deputy and Features editor at Harpers & Queen in 1983. As a representative of the magazine, she was the fashion journalist asked to choose the Dress of the Year for 1994, for which she picked a black bias-cut strapless dress by John Galliano.