Cathy Horyn joins The Cut staff as Critic-at-Large for Fashion Week coverage. This basically means every Fashion Week write-up this season will not sound like someone’s currying favors. Horyne previously spent 15 years as fashion critic at The New York Times before her sudden departure in January 2014. Within that time she was awarded the CFDA’s Eugenia Sheppard Media Award in 2002, and in November 2014 she released the book Joe Eula: Master of Twentieth-Century Fashion Illustration.
“Cathy is a GIANT in the industry, justly celebrated for her insights into fashion, superb writing, and authoritative takes,” says Stella Bugbee, The Cut editorial director. “We’re thrilled to add her voice to Fashion Week coverage at the Cut.”
I, myself look forward to reading a few pieces by Madame Horyn in between shows. She can be a bit harsh and we definitely don’t always agree on what collections are worth a second glance, but it’s her sharp-witted quips that make fashion critiquing, critiquing. Some of her truth serum has even gotten her banned from shows by citing them as “remarkably irrelevent”or “a nice but frozen vision of a bohemian chick at the Chateau Marmont. Or in St. Tropez.” Well, if you can’t stand the heat…