Tonne Goodman: She is the "nicest” of the Vogue editors. Repurposed, sustainable, adaptable and doing it all in white jeans.

In My Chair

“She’s quiet and not bombastic and wears a uniform every day, but Tonne changed this industry and the way Americans look at fashion. Tonne is rad. She is the definition of radical.”
Tonne Goodman, a native New Yorker, began her career in fashion as a model but quickly decided to explore other areas of the industry. Having studied art, she joined Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From there she went to the New York Times Magazine, to work with Carrie Donovan, before leaving to become a stylist with LIFE magazine and various commercial clients. She was appointed vice president of advertising for Calvin Klein in 1988. There she created iconic imagery for the company. After working alongside Liz Tilberis at Harper’s Bazaar, Goodman joined Anna Wintour at Vogue in 1999, and served as the magazine’s fashion director for nearly twenty years, responsible for dramatic editorials and innumerable eye-catching covers. In 2010, she was awarded the Eleanor Lambert Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Goodman, a mother of two, works and lives in Manhattan. She is also know as “the nicest US Vogue editor” as per the NYtimes.