ALEXANDER FURY

Alexander Fury is a fashion journalist, author and critic. He is the Fashion Features Director At Large of AnOther magazine, and the Men's Critic of the Financial Times newspaper. He was first Chief Fashion Correspondent at T: The New York Times Style Magazine (2016-2018), before which he served as fashion editor of the Independent, i and the Independent on Sunday newspapers (2013-2016), and inaugural Men's Critic for American Vogue.com. Fury was the first journalist to receive the Editorial Intelligence Award for Fashion Commentator of the Year 2014-15, and  is a member of the Business of Fashion's BoF 500. In 2018, Fury received the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. The same year, he was asked to select the 'Dress of the Year' at the Fashion Museum, Bath.

He has written ten books on fashion and luxurym, and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues. In 2018, Alexander Fury was the writer for the exhibition Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier at the Design Museum, London, the first UK retrospective of the designer's work.

Fury has curated a number of exhibitions, including the 2022-23 exhibition Forever Valentino, alongside Massimiliano Gioni, director of the New Museum, New York, and Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli; and the touring exhibition Swarovski - Master of Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2023) and Palazzo Citterio, Milan (2024). He also served as exhibition advisor on NAOMI: In Fashion (2024) at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A passionate collector of vintage clothing, his extensive personal archive has been featured in international publications and exhibitions at the Barbican Gallery and the V&A in London, the Palais Galliera, Fondation Azzedine Alaïa and Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris, amongst others. In 2022, American Vogue created a documentary short, 'Devoted', exploring key pieces from his John Galliano collection.