Joan Juliet Buck has been writing for Vogue since the cradle. Born in the U.S. but raised in Paris and London, she was features editor of British Vogue at 23, and has been a contributing editor to American Vogue since 1980. Her profiles, essays, and ...

Joan Juliet Buck has been writing for Vogue since the cradle. Born in the U.S. but raised in Paris and London, she was features editor of British Vogue at 23, and has been a contributing editor to American Vogue since 1980. Her profiles, essays, and criticism have also appeared in Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and her travel stories in Conde Nast Traveler and Travel and Leisure. Currently the TV Critic for Vogue, she has published two novels. After taking seven years off from writing to be the editor in chief of French Vogue, she moved to New Mexico (which led to a column in House and Garden) and has just returned to New York City. As a cultural commentator she has been seen in many documentaries, explaining one thing or another (the symbolic meaning of towers, the dance of Karole Armitage, French whorehouses, the death of Gianni Versace). Her voice was heard in James Crump’s film “Black White and Grey," about Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe.