Join us for this virtual conversation with acclaimed fashion journalist Dana Thomas and Nashville-based creative consultant Libby Callaway. Learn more about McQueen’s life and his role in transforming luxury fashion as told in Thomas’ book Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.
About Dana Thomas
Dana Thomas is the bestselling author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano and Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by PenguinPress, and Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition, published by Dial Books. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and the host of The Green Dream, an award-winning podcast on sustainability, produced by Talkbox Studio. She wrote the screenplay for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, an award-winning documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino.
About Libby Callaway
Libby Callaway moved to Nashville in 2004 from New York City, where her career in fashion media began. As a newspaper journalist, she has contributed to some of the country’s most widely regarded magazines and newspapers, including the New York Post, where she was a staff writer and fashion editor. As a PR & marketing professional, Libby has worked in-house for the Nashville denim company imogene + willie and the Alabama fashion house Billy Reid. In 2016, she founded The Callaway, Nashville’s premiere white-glove communications company, working primarily with fashion, retail, beauty, design and hospitality companies in the South and beyond.
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