Godfrey Deeny

Godfrey Deeny

• Branding, fashion, style, and luxury history expert
• Inaugural international Editor-in-Chief of Fashion Network.com
• Lecturer at the Paris Fashion Institute
• Jury member for numerous prizes in the fashion industry

Branding, fashion, style, and luxury history expert Godfrey Deeny is part of The BoF (The Business of Fashion), the group that shapes the fashion industry. His role as an international fashion critic has seen him cover runaways the world over. These include the likes of Paris, Milan, New York, and London. He also regularly occupies a front-row suite to review the fashion seasons in Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Sidney, Sao Paulo, and Rome.

Godfrey Deeny was appointed the inaugural International Editor-In-Chief of the multilingual fashion news platform Fashion Network.com in 2017. He was the Fashion  Editor at Large for Le Figaro for five years before this. His time with Le Figaro saw him review major ready-to-wear couture collections and write the Paris Daily’s key features on top international designers.

Other Key Positions

His twenty years in the industry have seen Godfrey Deeny, besides those mentioned, hold numerous key senior positions. Amongst these, he counts the Editor-In-Chief of Vogue Hommes, the Paris Bureau Chief of Industry for Women’s Wear Daily, the European Editor of Fashion Eire Daily, and the men’s fashion critic of The Financial Times.

A lecturer at Moscow State University’s graduate business school and the Paris Fashion Institute, Godfrey Deeny is also a jury member for numerous fashion industry prizes. These include, amongst others, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the LVMH Prize, and Rome of Who is on Next. The latter is a leading Italian award for young design talent created by Italian Vogue Editor-in-Chief Franca Sozzani.

A More Currently

Godfrey Deeny is currently the Editor-in-Chief and joint owner of Achtung and Sepp. Achtung is Germany’s leading directional fashion magazine. Sepp, on the other hand, is a football fashion magazine that is produced every two years for The World Cup and The European Championships.

Despite his full plate, Godfrey Deeny still carves out time to act as an editor for various custom publishing magazines. Examples of these include Giorgio Armani and H&M. He also writes for various titles such as Vogue’s Chinese, Taiwanese, Australian, and Brazilian titles as well as Der Stern, Die Zeit, and The Daily Telegraph.

Godfrey Deeny – Speaker

As a conference speaker, Godfrey Deeny has addressed audiences across the globe. His topics of note include personal branding, fashion, style, and luxury history. Although born in Ireland, he currently resides in France and speaks English, French, and Italian.

Speaking Topics

• Personal Branding
• Fashion
• Style
• Luxury history