Kim France

Kim France is an American editor, journalist, and author. She was the founding editor of Lucky, an award-winning national magazine with an initial circulation of 800,000, and is the author of The Lucky Shopping Manual (2003), which has 150,000 copies in print, according to its publisher, Dutton.^[1]

Background and Education

France, the daughter of Hugh Robert France and Eve Linda Rubin, is originally from Houston, Texas, is a graduate of Oberlin College and now lives in New York.

Career

Before Lucky, France served as editor-at-large for Spin, deputy editor of New York, and had been a staff writer for Sassy, Elle, and 7 Days. She's written articles for VIBE, Rolling Stone, Allure, The New York Times Book Review, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, and The Village Voice. France appeared on I Love the '70s along with Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and a dozen celebrities from that decade.

Lucky

Since the magazine's launch, France has been called "the shopping guru and media revolutionary" behind Lucky. She is the subject of many articles herself, including "Kim France Got Lucky - Magazine, That Is," at H-Texas Online.^[2] In 2004, Crain's New York Business named France as a "Rising Star" in its "40 Under 40" issue.^[3] Crain's called France "the hottest new editor at Condé Nast Publications, where she turned Lucky into the publisher’s fastest-growing launch ever." That same year, New York Magazine named France as one of New York's Most Powerful Women.

In January, 2012, an article in Women's Wear Daily revealed that France was joining Martha Stewart, Bobby Flay, and Cynthia Rowley at the consumer website OpenSky.^[4]

References

External links

• WWD on Kim France at OpenSky After Lucky
• Fashion Week Daily "The Post-Lucky Interview, With Kim France and Andrea Linett"