Suzy Peta Menkes OBE (born 24 December 1943) is a British journalist and fashion critic.

[2] Her landlady gained her entry into her first couture show at Nina Ricci, which sparked her interest in high fashion.

On her return from Paris, she read history and English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge while her sister studied at Oxford.

Menkes professes to admire "good journalism",[5] especially the work of Prudence Glynn at the Times of London and Eugenia Sheppard of the New York Herald Tribune.

After leaving Cambridge in 1966, where she was the first woman who signed up to work for Varsity, and later became its first female Editor-in-Chief, the university's newspaper, she joined The Times as a junior reporter.

At age 24, Menkes took her first job as a fashion journalist at the London Evening Standard, where she had been recruited by editor Charles Wintour, who became her mentor.

[6]Then, she joined the Daily Express, before returning to The Times, where she met her late husband and father of her three sons, David Spanier.

Here she presents in-depth interviews with the fashion industry's most influential designers, thinkers and executives, including Duro Olowu, Giancarlo Giammetti, Maria Grazia Chiuri of Dior, Marine Serre, Michael Kors and Natalia Vodianova.

During her marriage to David Spanier, she converted to Judaism, and now refrains from attending fashion shows that take place on Holy days.