Alice Rawsthorn

Alice Rawsthorn is the Design Critic of the International Herald Tribune. A regular broadcaster, she is also a columnist for the New York Times Magazine. Alice was Director of the Design Museum in London from 2001 to 2006, and before that an award-winning journalist with the Financial Times. Her books include a biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and a monograph on the designer Marc Newson. A trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Alice is the lead adviser on the visual arts to the Arts Council and Chair of the Arts Council's review of the contemporary visual arts.