Stefano Tonchi

Stefano Tonchi is a fashion journalist, author, and curator. Over the course of his award-winning career in the magazine industry, he served as editor-in-chief of W, creator and editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and fashion creative director for Esquire. Under his leadership, W won five National Magazine Awards and T and Esquire were each named "Magazine of the Year" by the Society of Publication Designers, among other accolades. Recently he was the contributing global chief creative officer for the L'Officiel group, overseeing its print and digital editorial content in more than 30 countries, and now serves as the founder and the editorial director for the Palm Beach-based multimedia brand PALMER.

Tonchi is the co-curator of Italiana: Italy Through the Lens of Fashion, 1971–2001 at Milan's Palazzo Reale and Bellissima: Italy and High Fashion 1945–1968, a traveling exhibition shown at the MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and co-author of the accompanying catalogues. He previously oversaw the publication of W: Stories and W: The First 40 Years and has authored, edited, and contributed to titles including Uniform: Order and Disorder, accompanying an exhibition at MoMA PS1; Total Living: Art, Fashion, Design, Architecture, Communication; Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the '80s; Human Game: Winners and Losers, and Walter Albini and His Times: All Power to the Imagination. Most recently he was the visual editor for the exhibition and catalogue, Memos on Fashion in This Millennium at Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. In December 2021 Marsilio published L'Officiel 100: One Hundred People and Ideas from a Century of Fashion, edited by Tonchi with Marco Pecorari. Tonchi serves on the Board of the International Center of Photography and is an adviser and contributor to SCAD.