Michael Roberts, the writer, editor, stylist, and photographer best known for his influential tenure at Vanity Fair has died at the age of 75.
Michael Roberts, the writer, editor, stylist, and photographer best known for his influential tenures as the fashion and style director of, died on Monday morning at the age of 75, a close friend has confirmed. “It is with one very heavy heart that we have to announce the death of our beloved friend Michael,” they wrote. “He died peacefully, early on Monday morning, at his home on the island of Sicily.
Throughout his wide-ranging five-decade career, Roberts shaped the course of fashion through words, images, and illustrations, with his body of work serving as an extraordinary document of the industry’s ever-changing landscape.
While Roberts continued to photograph, write, and style for a wide range of magazines throughout his long career—including contributions to a seemingly endless number of international editions ofThe Jungle ABC, was published in 1998 with a foreword by Iman: featuring graphic, colorful cutout collages, it presented the alphabet as brought to life by the flora and fauna of Africa, with Roberts stating that it was intended for both children and adults. His fifth book,was published in 2011 as a delightfully pithy, tongue-in-cheek ribbing of the industry he knew so well.
Roberts’s versatile talents and playful sense of humor have been remembered by his friends and collaborators following his passing. “Michael Roberts really made me see what was possible: he and André Leon Talley were two Black people at the top of the industry,” said Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of Britishand think, wow, there’s a Black man who is doing it on his own terms. Michael was always very generous, kind, encouraging, and funny. And above all, so talented.
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