Robin Givhan Visits Spelman College to Share Her Story as an Award-Winning Fashion Editor

Spelman College will host a conversation with Robin Givhan, fashion editor for the Washington Post, at 11 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 29. Givhan is the only fashion writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, will moderate the conversation, which will cover Givhan’s success in the fields of fashion and journalism.

In addition, Brownlee and Givhan will delve into the Detroit native’s first solo book “The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled in the Spotlight and Made History,” which goes behind the scenes of a legendary 1973 fashion show and fundraiser featuring American and French designers at Versailles palace.

The event is free and open to the public, and will be held in Sisters Chapel (GPS Address: 440 Westview Drive, Atlanta 30310). For more information, visit www.spelman.edu.

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