Former Fashion columnist signs on at Flare

Tim Blanks, who used to be a contributing editor for St. Joseph Media's Fashion magazine, has now been hired at rival Flare (Rogers) as an editor-at-large, and his first column will appear in the March issue (on sale mid-February).

Blanks, well-known as the voice of much of independently produced Fashion Television File, which airs on CBC Newsworld, will remain based in London. He writes regularly about fashion for international magazines and newspapers including Vogue, The Financial Times, Interview, Fantastic Man and Arena Homme Plus. He is contributing editor for Style.com where he writes about fashion, entertainment and arts events and wrote and presented Masters of Style, a series of sixty-minute documentaries about fashion designers.

"Tim's column will offer Flare readers tremendous insight into the world of fashion and global trendsetters," said Lisa Tant, editor-in-chief of Flare, in a Rogers press release. "His writing is clever, passionate and always informative. Our readers are in for a real treat and I am thrilled to add his name to the Flare masthead."