FOUNDER
Kathleen Beckett enjoyed an inside view of the fashion and beauty worlds during her many years on staff at the top style magazines in the United States: Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour and Vogue, where she wrote her own column, FYI: Inside Style. Beckett’s articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the London Sunday Times. Beckett was also a long-time Contributing Editor to Elle. She was, in fact, interviewing a designer for Elle when she realized there might be men and women who would enjoy the same inner access that she did as a journalist. That experience laid the groundwork for Friends of Fashion. Beckett, who holds a BA from Wellesley and MA from Stanford, is helping to launch fashion events for the Harvard Club, where she is a member with her husband, the children’s book author Steven Kroll.
STYLE DIRECTOR
After graduating from George Washington University, Marilyn Kirschner returned to the city where she was born, New York, and she hasn’t left since. A beloved and often photographed fashion editor, Marilyn started her career at Seventeen Magazine before landing at Harper’s Bazaar, where she remained for 21 years, assuming the title of Senior Market Editor. Her latest work combines her eye for fashion with her love of reporting on it.
Since 1995 she has been Editor-in-Chief of the internet magazine Look-on-Line, and has also been New York Editor of Fashionlines.com, columnist for About.com, and contributor to JamesGirone.com, an online guide to children’s fashion. In whatever free time remains she collects vintage fashion.
ADVISORY BOARD
George Heal is an independent management consultant specializing in assisting organizations to develop effective business strategies. George has over 20 years of business experience and has worked with a large variety of clients from Fortune 500 corporations to start up organizations. Prior to forming his own firm, George held various management positions at several consulting and software firms. He attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Canada and graduated with honours in Computer Technology.
Kate Moodie is one of the country’s top style experts, conceptualizing, directing, producing and executing photo shoots and cover shots for national magazines as well as for fashion and beauty companies such as Estee Lauder, Maybelline and Macy’s. She has worked as the Fashion Editor, Beauty Editor or Style Director of Self, Fitness, Redbook, YM, Glamour and Elle, and helped create the look of Marie Claire as the magazine launched in the US. She is currently the Fashion Director of Women’s Health magazine.
Tiffany Schauer founded the non-profit OCE (Our Children’s Earth) in 1998 after more than ten years experience in environmental justice and litigation. The maverick public non-profit charity is recognized for its effectiveness in clean air issues. Prior to founding OCE, she was an attorney with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, which represented industry clients in environmental litigation. She also served as vice chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Hearing Board and held key positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
Kimberly Goad is a New York-based writer and editor who has covered trends both social and sartoria for more than 25 years. Her articles have appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Self, and Town & Country. She has also held staff positions at Vogue, Mademoiselle, Us Weekly, and The Dallas Morning News. She earned her Bachelor of Journalism at The University of Texas in Austin.