About The Haberdashery Herald

Staff

• Alistair Venn

  Founding Editor

  Contrarian menswear blogger who built his following by systematically dismantling every piece of conventional style advice and replacing it with worse advice delivered more confidently. Alistair covers fits, trends, and the fashion-industrial complex's conspiracy to make you buy things you don't need, which he exposes while also telling you to buy different things you don't need.

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  Contrarian menswear blogger who built his following by systematically dismantling every piece of conventional style advice and replacing it with worse advice delivered more confidently. Alistair covers fits, trends, and the fashion-industrial complex's conspiracy to make you buy things you don't need, which he exposes while also telling you to buy different things you don't need.

• Celeste Morrow-Park

  Standards Correspondent

  Art history PhD dropout who now writes about fashion as if every outfit is a curatorial statement. Celeste sees your khakis and reads them as a postmodern rejection of effort — whether you intended that or not. She covers color theory, coordination, and the semiotics of getting dressed, and she will not stop making references to the Bauhaus.

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  Art history PhD dropout who now writes about fashion as if every outfit is a curatorial statement. Celeste sees your khakis and reads them as a postmodern rejection of effort — whether you intended that or not. She covers color theory, coordination, and the semiotics of getting dressed, and she will not stop making references to the Bauhaus.

• Dahlia Okonkwo

  Civic Affairs Desk

  Former restaurant critic who pivoted to fashion writing and brought every instinct with her — she reviews a cashmere sweater the way she'd review a tasting menu, with sensory detail that makes you feel the fabric through the screen. Dahlia covers accessories, luxury goods, and the full sensory experience of wearing clothes, which she insists most fashion writers criminally ignore.

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  Former restaurant critic who pivoted to fashion writing and brought every instinct with her — she reviews a cashmere sweater the way she'd review a tasting menu, with sensory detail that makes you feel the fabric through the screen. Dahlia covers accessories, luxury goods, and the full sensory experience of wearing clothes, which she insists most fashion writers criminally ignore.

• Gerald Selvage

  Culture Columnist

  Former aerospace engineer who pivoted to menswear criticism after spending $14,000 on Japanese denim during a depressive episode. Gerald treats every garment as a load-bearing structure and has been banned from three Savile Row shops for requesting tensile strength data. He covers fabrics, construction, and the physics of drape with the intensity of a man filing a patent.

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  Former aerospace engineer who pivoted to menswear criticism after spending $14,000 on Japanese denim during a depressive episode. Gerald treats every garment as a load-bearing structure and has been banned from three Savile Row shops for requesting tensile strength data. He covers fabrics, construction, and the physics of drape with the intensity of a man filing a patent.

• Jun-seo Baek

  Field Reporter

  Software developer by day who started reviewing clothes with the same rigor he applies to code reviews and accidentally became the Herald's most polarizing columnist. Jun-seo covers fit, proportion, and the systematic deconstruction of why some outfits 'work' and others don't, using frameworks that infuriate people who think fashion should be intuitive.

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  Software developer by day who started reviewing clothes with the same rigor he applies to code reviews and accidentally became the Herald's most polarizing columnist. Jun-seo covers fit, proportion, and the systematic deconstruction of why some outfits 'work' and others don't, using frameworks that infuriate people who think fashion should be intuitive.

• Margaret Fenn-Hollis

  Letters Editor

  Retired costume designer for period dramas who now writes about contemporary fashion with the unshakeable conviction that we peaked in 1943. Margaret covers fashion history, seasonal trends through a historical lens, and why your grandfather dressed better than you despite earning a tenth of your salary. She has opinions about shoulder pads that could fill a book, and they have.

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  Retired costume designer for period dramas who now writes about contemporary fashion with the unshakeable conviction that we peaked in 1943. Margaret covers fashion history, seasonal trends through a historical lens, and why your grandfather dressed better than you despite earning a tenth of your salary. She has opinions about shoulder pads that could fill a book, and they have.

• Priya Iyer-Nkomo

  Institutional Memory Desk

  Former financial analyst who started a spreadsheet tracking her cost-per-wear across 847 garments and accidentally became a fashion writer when the spreadsheet went viral. Priya brings Bloomberg Terminal energy to capsule wardrobes and treats outfit optimization like portfolio management. She has never once purchased something 'on impulse.'

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  Former financial analyst who started a spreadsheet tracking her cost-per-wear across 847 garments and accidentally became a fashion writer when the spreadsheet went viral. Priya brings Bloomberg Terminal energy to capsule wardrobes and treats outfit optimization like portfolio management. She has never once purchased something 'on impulse.'

• Roderick Chalk

  Weekend Editor

  Third-generation tailor's grandson who learned to hand-sew buttonholes before he could ride a bike. Roderick is the Herald's self-appointed guardian of craft, mourning the decline of proper alterations while grudgingly admitting that some machine-made garments are 'not entirely disgraceful.' He covers heritage brands, tailoring, and the lost art of caring about your clothes.

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  Third-generation tailor's grandson who learned to hand-sew buttonholes before he could ride a bike. Roderick is the Herald's self-appointed guardian of craft, mourning the decline of proper alterations while grudgingly admitting that some machine-made garments are 'not entirely disgraceful.' He covers heritage brands, tailoring, and the lost art of caring about your clothes.

• Thimble Finch

  Public Records Fellow

  Master haberdasher who has measured more heads than a phrenologist and judged more hats than a milliner.

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  Master haberdasher who has measured more heads than a phrenologist and judged more hats than a milliner.

• Tomás Quebrada

  Copy Chief

  Skateboarding photographer turned fashion writer who thinks the best outfit is the one you can eat concrete in and still look good. Tomás covers streetwear, workwear crossover, and the innovations happening at the margins where function meets personal expression. He is professionally skeptical of anything that requires dry cleaning.

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  Skateboarding photographer turned fashion writer who thinks the best outfit is the one you can eat concrete in and still look good. Tomás covers streetwear, workwear crossover, and the innovations happening at the margins where function meets personal expression. He is professionally skeptical of anything that requires dry cleaning.