Dana Thomas is the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Fashionopolis Young Readers Edition, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano and the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by Penguin Press. She is the European Sustainability Editor for British Vogue, a regular contributor to the New York Times, and hosts “The Green Dream,” a weekly podcast on sustainability, produced by Wondercast.Studio. She wrote the screenplay for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, a feature documentary directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020.

Thomas began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. Thomas has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Architectural Digest. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. And in 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Paris.

The definitive guide to fashion's slow revolution: Just as The Omnivore's Dilemma taught adults and kids about the food industry's impact on our world and the push toward slow food, Fashionopolis teaches readers about the fashion industry and the advent of slow fashion.

Action-oriented environmental nonfiction: A fresh angle for readers thinking about the ways their lifestyle impacts the environment, with a focus on environmental justice.

Social justice: Explores the impact of fast fashion on the people who make it, with a kid-level look at working conditions and a focus on what the reader can do to help.

Perfect for the classroom: For science and social studies classrooms learning about the environment, art history through fashion, and social justice on a global scale.

A respected journalist with a fresh audience: Dana Thomas is well known for her reporting on the fashion industry for adults, but this middle grade edition of her 2019 book, Fashionopolis, is an opportunity to relaunch this story for its natural audience: kids who care about the world they're inheriting.