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,[1] and grew up in Kent.[2] She attended the Royal College of Art.[2]
Her career as a journalist began in the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was the London editor for
By the early 1990s, Etherington-Smith was established as an art journalist.
As a biographer Etherington-Smith has written about the fashion designer Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon and her sister, novelist Elinor Glyn in The "It" Girls; and about Salvador Dalí in The Persistence of Memory, which was translated into twelve languages.[1][2]
Etherington-Smith died from a heart attack in January 2020 at the age of 73.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Staff writer (21 July 2006). "About Meredith Etherington-Smith". Newsnight Review. BBC. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d Bigham, Randy (17 October 2014). "Inspiring Women: A Beautiful, Devilishly Gorgeous Career". Urbanette. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ "Dress of the Year". The Fashion Museum, Bath. Bath & North East Somerset Council. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ Etherington-Smith, Meredith (19 November 2011). "Elizabeth Taylor: the girl who had everything". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ British Fashion, Arts Writer Meredith Etherington-Smith Dies at 73
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