is a freelance writer and editor

Alex Frank, writer and editor

 

Alex Frank is a writer and editor for hire with over 15 years of magazine experience covering celebrity, art, music, global culture, style, trends, and travel.

He has previously worked at The FADER as Deputy Editor and VOGUE.com as Deputy Culture Editor. He has contributed to VOGUE, Pitchfork, ELLE, i-D, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and GQ.

His profiles and interviews include Aretha Franklin, Lana Del Rey, Nicki Minaj, Dolly Parton, Björk, Timothée Chalamet, Tyler the Creator, Andre 3000, Bella Hadid, Debbie Harry, Joni Mitchell, Mariah Carey, Kendall Jenner, Luca Guadagnino, Andy Cohen, Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke, William H. Macy, Julia Fox, Pharrell, Patti LaBelle, Ricky Martin, Virgil Abloh, Charli XCX, Pamela Anderson, José Andrés, Donatella Versace, SZA, Andy Roddick, John Waters, RuPaul, and many others.

On assignment, he has traveled to Lagos, the foothills of the Himalayas in India, the Azores, Kanye West’s ranch in Wyoming, Dublin, Moscow, Vienna, Accra, Marrakech, the fjords of Norway, Dakar, Tokyo, Rome, São Paolo, among others. For fun, he has been to the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, a coffee farm in Hawaii, and a glacier in Argentina, to name just a few.

To be in touch about assignments: 

alexgfrank@gmail.com

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SELECTED WRITING

 

TRAVEL AND ESSAYS

On the Chaos and Calm of Kanye West’s Spectacle in Wyoming (Pitchfork)

The Cattle Ranch Pioneering American Wagyu (Departures)

Finding a Natural Home for the North American Bison (Departures)

Emma Chamberlain Is the Ultimate Internet Auteur (High Snobiety)

Ghana Rising: Accra's Street Style Has a Colorful, Free-Spirited Beat (Vogue)

Notes from the Upper West: A Road Trip Through Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana (Departures)

A New Documentary Returns to Andy Warhol’s Pittsburgh Roots (Netflix)

Why 2016 Was the Year of the Scam (Mel)

Ryan Trecartin Moves His Artist Compound to Appalachian Ohio (Fantastic Man)

Dolly Parton Is for Everyone (Pitchfork)

Fjords on Four Wheels (Departures)

Can You Admire John Galliano's Work Without Fully Forgiving Him? (Harper’s Bazaar)

Dakar Dreaming: Painter Kehinde Wiley’s Compound on the Coast of Senegal (Departures)

The Totally Fearless Style of George Michael (GQ)

There’s Magic in the Machine: The Last Automaton Auteur (Departures)

Just Brilliant: A New Generation of London Designers (The FADER)

Las Vegas and Britney Spears Are Strange — and Similar — American Bedfellows (The FADER)

Fire Island Was — And Still Is — Grindr IRL (Vice)

Petra Collins’s Aesthetic Has Taken Over the World — Now She Must Destroy It (High Snobiety)

A Night at the Ritz with Aretha Franklin and Friends (Vogue)

COPYWRITING AND BRAND WORK

Bottega Veneta and the New York Times: The Poetry of Gestures

Chanel Comes to New York

Netflix: Queue Magazine

Carolina Herrera: BTS Content for the Good Girl Fragrance Campaign

 

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