>Alice Rawsthorn

Design Critic, Writer

Alice Rawsthorn is the Design Critic of the International Herald Tribune and a columnist for the New York Times. From 2001 to 2006, Alice was Director of the Design Museum in London and, before then, an award-winning journalist with the Financial Times, working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and pioneering the FT’s coverage of the creative industries. Her books include a biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and a monograph on the work of the industrial designer Marc Newson. Alice is a member of the board of Arts Council England, and a Trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

Selected Publications

Rawsthorn, Alice. ‘Yves Saint Laurent: a Biography’ Nan A. Talese, Dec 1996.
Rawsthorn, Alice. ‘Marc Newson.’ Booth- Clibborn, March 2000.