She previously worked at other publications, including the Financial Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.

[5] She was the fashion features director for InStyle UK, a position she held from 2000 to 2002.

Prior to this, she worked as a fashion correspondent for the FT, as an arts contributor at The Economist and was the European editor at Elle US.

She has written extensively on a freelance basis for Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

[9] Friedman writes a weekly column for the Saturday FT, as well as editing the Style page, and helps cover the luxury industry for the daily newspaper, and edits the twice-yearly supplement The Business of Fashion.