FT launches fashion industry newsletter

The Financial Times launched Fashion Matters, a weekly newsletter on the intersection of business, culture, politics and style.

The newsletter intends to focus on the $2 trillion fashion industry and explore how it has culturally influenced the music and entertainment industries, politics, climate policy, and those in the public eye.

“Fashion Matters will give readers an exclusive, unvarnished opinion on the fashion industry, delivered in a frank and occasionally funny way,” said FT fashion editor Lauren Indvik in a statement. “We know there is demand for more coverage on the business of fashion, on menswear, and how ESG intersects with fashion and business and we wanted to address these topics directly with our readers in a more intimate way.”

Fashion Matters is edited by Indvik, with contributions from correspondents in France, Italy and China.

Prior to joining the FT in 2020, she was the founding editor-in-chief of Vogue Business and previously reported on business and technology in New York. Indvik was awarded Fashion Journalist of the Year at the 2020 Press Awards.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.