Fashion journalist was just one of many monikers that applied to Michael Roberts, who died Monday at the age of 75.
In 2022, Roberts was honored with Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to fashion. Intercontinental, Roberts was largely based in Europe, and traveled frequently to the U.S., Rio de Janeiro and Asia, grasping globalism as a way of life, versus required biannual travel for fashion weeks, before most of his fashion peers. “Fashion’s global now. If you’re truly involved, you can’t be in one place any more,” he told WWD in 2006.
On Monday, Collins recalled their Vanity Fair days together and how “deeply knowledgeable” Roberts was about fashion, art and culture in general, as well as his old-school grandeur. His styling occasionally alarmed some, as was the case in 2008 when national outrage was sparked by back-baring photos by Annie Leibovitz of Miley Cyrus appeared in Vanity Fair in 2006. Addressing the kiddie porn allegations as “ridiculous,” Roberts said that teenagers could be seen on TV and in the cinema “in the most prurient ways” and the idea that he was “deemed as being party to some kind of subversive picture of this girl and that she was cajoled was “completely not true.
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