Arizona Costume Institute Presents
Booth Moore: My Life as a Fashion Insider and Journalist
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
11:30 am // Lunch
Noon // Conversation with Booth Moore + Q&A
Arizona Costume Institute invites you to a lunch and conversation with fashion editor and author, Booth Moore. Hear her experiences covering fashion week runway shows in New York and Europe for 25 years, interviewing stars on Hollywood’s red carpets, and introducing new fashion designers and brands. Learn about the many changes that occurred in the fashion scene throughout the years, including the ascendence of celebrity fashion stylists and social media influencers.
About Booth Moore
Based in Los Angeles, Booth Moore is the Executive Editor of the fashion industry “bible” Women’s Wear Daily. In between her 18-year stint at The Los Angeles Times, where she served as the first fashion critic in the newspaper’s history, and joining the team at The Hollywood Reporter as Style and Fashion News Director, she contributed to a range of publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Town & Country, Condé Nast Traveler and Robb Report.
Moore travels regularly to review runway shows in New York and Europe and has interviewed nearly every major designer in the business including Ralph Lauren, Thom Browne, Rick Owens, Cate Holstein, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Gabriela Hearst, Victoria Beckham, among others. During her career, she has documented the ascendence of Los Angeles as a fashion capital, writing about the rise of Hollywood stylists, celebrities as designers, costume designers as influencers, talent agencies launching fashion divisions, and luxury brands getting into filmmaking. For the second year in January, she reported live from the Golden Globes red carpet as part of WWD’s Eye on the Red Carpet pre-show livestream.
Moore has written business features about the success of Kim Kardashian’s Skims and L.A. brand DÔEN, covered the Indigenous fashion scene in Santa Fe, and penned stories about art, hospitality and lifestyle news, and trends for WWD’s Weekend. She has authored three books including The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture with $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand and American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row.
$25 for ACI Members* and $35 for one invited guest
Presented in Singer Hall
RSVP by Wednesday, March 19
*An active ACI Membership is required to RSVP