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Robin Givhan is senior critic-at-large for the Washington Post.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton University and a Masters of Science in journalism from the University of Michigan. In 1995, she arrived at the Washington Post where she began covering the news, trends and business of the international fashion industry. She also wrote a weekly culture column. In 2009, she began covering Michelle Obama and the cultural and social shifts stirred by the first African American family in the White House. From 2010-2012, she was special correspondent for style and culture at Newsweek Daily Beast. She returned to the Post in 2014 as fashion critic. In 2020, she was appointed senior critic-at-large with a focus on politics, race and the arts.

Givhan’s work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Essence, Elle UK, New York and the New Yorker. She has contributed to several books including “Runway Madness,” “No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers,” and “Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers.” She is the author, along with the Washington Post photo staff, of “Michelle: Her First Year as First Lady.”

In 2006, she won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her fashion coverage. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Rabkin Prize for her arts writing.

She lives in Washington, DC.
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    • Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh
    • Written by: Robin Givhan
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    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2025-06-24
    • Language: English
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