Global Fashion Correspondent & Industry Tastemaker

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.; World Trade Center (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

GQ, part of Condé Nast, seeks a Chief Global Fashion Correspondent in New York to define editorial voice across global fashion, menswear, and culture. This role blends reporting, criticism, and cross-platform storytelling for web, print, and video, with travel to fashion weeks and events. The role reports to the Executive Editor.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of fashion journalism, a strong network, and a proven ability to break news while delivering engaging, multi-platform content.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience covering fashion for a major media brand or publication.
• Strong reporting skills and demonstrated ability to break news, develop sources, and produce original journalism.
• Deep understanding of the global fashion industry, particularly menswear and luxury fashion.
• Excellent writing skills with experience across criticism, reporting, profiles, and digital storytelling.
• Experience working across multiple platforms, including digital, newsletter, social, video, and print.
• Strong industry relationships and familiarity with the fashion week ecosystem.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven editorial environments.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally for coverage assignments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a lead GQ voice covering the global fashion industry, with an emphasis on men’s fashion, luxury, designers, celebrity style, runway, fashion in pop culture, and the business of fashion.
• Deliver 1-2 pieces per week for GQ.com, including newsletter coverage and web-first reporting.
• Produce original reporting, trend stories, criticism, profiles, interviews, essays, and access-driven features for print and web.
• Pursue first-and-best fashion reporting, including news scoops, insider coverage, and deeply sourced industry reporting.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the fashion industry, including designers, publicists, executives, stylists, talent representatives, and creatives — and leverage these relationships to generate reporting opportunities, exclusives, and distinctive editorial access.
• Work closely with GQ’s Style and Fashion editors in the U.S., global fashion team, and global editorial network to help shape and drive the brand’s fashion and menswear coverage.
• Help develop and appear in social video and video projects, particularly as part of broader content plans around fashion weeks and major menswear moments.
• Develop sharp editorial perspectives on fashion trends, designers, collections, and the evolving role of style in culture.
• Travel as necessary to international men’s fashion weeks and major industry events.
• Collaborate with editors, producers, and social teams to create real-time, cross-platform coverage.
• Help shape GQ’s distinctive point of view on runway shows, collections, trends, celebrity attendance, and industry conversation.
• Work closely with the Senior Style Editor to plan and execute GQ’s fashion coverage across web and print.
• Develop and expand fashion-focused editorial IP and recurring franchises across GQ platforms, particularly site, newsletter, social, and video.
• Serve as a visible ambassador for GQ within the fashion and luxury industries, representing GQ at industry events, fashion weeks, panels, premieres, and GQ-owned moments like Men of the Year and The GQ Afterparty.
• Help concept, execute, and cover GQ editorial and experiential events, including Men of the Year, The GQ Afterparty, fashion week activations, and other tentpole moments.
• Participate in video shoots, social storytelling, live conversations, and multimedia editorial projects tied to fashion coverage.
• Help translate major stories and fashion moments into cross-platform editorial programming

Skills

Editorial reporting

Multiplatform storytelling

Fashion industry knowledge

Travel readiness

Strong writing

Source development

Job description

GQ, part of Condé Nast, seeks a Chief Global Fashion Correspondent in New York to define editorial voice across global fashion, menswear, and culture. This role blends reporting, criticism, and cross-platform storytelling for web, print, and video, with travel to fashion weeks and events. The role reports to the Executive Editor.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of fashion journalism, a strong network, and a proven ability to break news while delivering engaging, multi-platform content.