Michael Roberts
Michael Roy Roberts (2 October 1947 – 3 April 2023) was a British fashion journalist. He was the fashion and style director of Vanity Fair magazine. He worked as fashion director for The New Yorker and The Sunday Times, style director and art director for Tatler, design director of British Vogue, Paris editor of Vanity Fair, and editor of Boulevard magazine.
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Michael Roberts
- Name
- Michael Roberts
- Born
- 2 October 1947
- Birthplace
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
- Died
- 3 April 2023
- Place of death
- Taormina, Sicily, Italy
- Occupation
- Fashion journalist
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Honours
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Languages
- English
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Michael Roy Roberts (2 October 1947 – 3 April 2023) was a British fashion journalist. He was the fashion and style director of Vanity Fair magazine. He worked as fashion director for The New Yorker and The Sunday Times, style director and art director for Tatler, design director of British Vogue, Paris editor of Vanity Fair, and editor of Boulevard magazine.
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Roberts also worked as a fashion photographer and illustrator, contributing images to publications including Vanity Fair; L'Uomo Vogue; British, Italian, French, American, Chinese, Brazilian, and Japanese Vogue; The Sunday Times; and The Independent on Sunday. He published four books of his illustrations. Roberts was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to fashion. He died on 3 April 2023, at the age of 75, in Taormina, Sicily, where he lived. Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa will portray Roberts in The Queen of Fashion, an upcoming biographical film starring Andrea Riseborough as Isabella Blow.
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• Name — Michael Roberts • Born — 2 October 1947 • Birthplace — Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England • Died — 3 April 2023 • Place of death — Taormina, Sicily, Italy • Occupation — Fashion journalist
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1947
Michael Roberts was born on 2 October 1947.
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Michael Roberts died on 3 April 2023.
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