British Fashion Writer & Journalist Colin McDowell

Colin McDowell is a British fashion writer, journalist and academic. As senior fashion writer for The Sunday Times, in the 1990s and 2000s he became a familiar sight in the front row of fashion shows along with his contemporaries Anna Wintour and Suzy Menkes. He is the author of some 20 books on fashion and designers, including McDowell’s Directory of 20th Century Fashion. In 2008 he was appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fashion.