Rachel Tashjian is a Senior Style Reporter for NCS.
Tashjian gives multi-platform reporting and evaluation of on a regular basis look and excessive style alike, documenting the cultural shifts that affect the best way we glance.
Prior to becoming a member of NCS, Tashjian was the style critic for The Washington Post’s Style part, the place she lined garments worn by the various and the few throughout video, print, digital and a e-newsletter.
Tashjian has been described as “one of the most exciting and influential fashion critics working today, putting her in company with newspaper veterans like Robin Givhan, Vanessa Friedman, and Cathy Horyn,” in line with SSENSE. She can also be the creator of Opulent Tips, an “invitation-only” e-newsletter with a cult following that gives purchasing and private model recommendation.
In 2023, Tashjian was an ASME nominee for her evaluations and criticism, a primary-place winner within the Society for Features Journalism, Excellence-In-Features Awards for arts & tradition criticism portfolio in 2024 and was named to the Business of Fashion 500 listing in 2023.
Tashjian was beforehand the style information director at Harper’s Bazaar, the place she profiled main designers together with Miuccia Prada, Maria Grazia Chiuri of Dior and Nicolas Ghesquière of Louis Vuitton. Before that, she was GQ’s first style critic, writing in regards to the evolution of streetwear and the style diplomacy of the Bidens, the Trump administration and the British royals.
Tashjian attended the University of Pennsylvania and holds a BA in English and artwork historical past.
Tashjian is predicated out of NCS’s New York Bureau.