She also worked as a writer for Fairchild Publications, now Fairchild Fashion Media, in New York City in the 1970s. In the 1970s, Agins was hired as an intern at the Kansas City Star and the Boston Globe. degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. degree in English and political science from Wellesley College in 1975. The CFDA honored her with the CFDA Eugenia Sheppard Award for Excellence in Fashion Journalism in 2004.Journalist Teri Agins was born on Novemin Kansas City, Kansas. In both 19, she won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award. In both 19, she won the Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.

With respect to awards, she has won quite a few. In addition to The Wall Street Journal, she has written for Vogue, Town & Country, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New York Times, among others. Teri Agins has continued to be involved in the fashion industry since then, authoring two critically acclaimed books: The End of Fashion: The Mass Marketing of the Clothing Business – published in 1999 – and Hijacking The Runway – published in 2014. She reported on fashion for The Wall Street Journal until 2009, when she retired and became a freelance writer. Five years later, she was asked to develop the fashion beat as its own category for The Wall Street Journal due to the abundance of fashion IPOs happening during that time period. On July 9, 1984, she began working for The Wall Street Journal, covering small business, courthouse and airline news at various intervals.

From 1979-1984, she lived in Salvador and Belo Horizonte, Brazil while in a correspondent position for the Latin America Daily Post.

Teri began her journalism career in 1977 in Chicago as a reporter/editor at the Daily News Record. It was at Wellesley after a few reporting internships that she decided that she wanted to be a newspaper reporter. She obtained her graduate degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri. She graduated from Wyandotte High School in 1971 and attended Wellesley College for her undergraduate degree, majoring in both English and Political Science. Additionally, she wrote a column for her high school newspaper while in the ninth grade titled Teri’s Tips For Fashion Flair. She did the same with her college dorm room. She subscribed to Vogue, and tore out pages to tape to her wall. She followed a path into a love of fashion similar to others that end up in the industry – she and her sister dressed their paper dolls in elaborate outfits that they designed. Teri Agins was born on November 14, 1953, and grew up in Kansas City, KS. In today’s installment of our “Who Is….?” series, we’re going to have a look at the life and career of fashion journalist Teri Agins, someone for whom the industry has amassed a wealth of respect for her hard-hitting journalistic pieces over the years.

The End of Fashion by Teri Agins