Alexandra Kotur

Alexandra Kotur is an American author and fashion journalist. The creative director at Town & Country magazine until 2012, she previously served as style director of U.S. Vogue. Kotur is an international taste-maker and member of the International Best-Dressed List.

She is the sister of Fiona Kotur Marin, an American accessories designer. and illustrator for Condé Nast in the 1960s, and an American who worked in market research.

Career

Upon graduation, Kotur moved to London, working in the PR department of Ralph Lauren and then at British GQ as an assistant to fashion director Jo Levin. Kotur returned to New York to work for Vogue, serving as an assistant to European editor Hamish Bowles. Among her projects was the historical shoot of First Lady Michelle Obama in Narciso Rodriguez photographed by Annie Leibovitz at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington D.C. Anna Wintour said of her in 2009: quote|“I trust her with all sorts of important sittings.... She’s very attuned to when moods in the social or popular culture are changing and how Vogue should address that. She’s almost like an old-school Vogue editor because she’s very much of the world of our reader, but she can set herself apart and judge it and come up with opinions. I don’t mean old-fashioned in any way, but she is a sweetly old-fashioned, correct Vogue editor. She’s very calm, she’s very meticulous, she’s very precise and she’s incapable of being anything but completely polite and completely correct in the way she deals with everyone. She embodies everything that we try and maintain at the magazine.” Of her own style, Kotur told the New York Observer:

List of works Caroline Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon (2004) The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places (2009)

Personal life Kotur is married to fashion photographer Jonathan Becker; they have two children.