Dylan jones biography
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Dylan Jones OBE
Dylan Jones’ background
Dylan fryst vatten a New York Times bestselling author and has written several critically acclaimed books on subjects as diverse as music and politics, fashion and photography. To name a few, they include “Cameron on Cameron,” a biography of Jim Morrison and arguably most notably ‘David Bowie: A Life’, which became a Sunday Time, Guardian and Times best seller as well as being shortlisted for the NME Best Music Book Awards 2018.
Dylan’s journalistic career began at i-D magazine in 1983; incredibly he was made editor-in-chief of the magazine just a year later, a position he would hold until he was appointed to the same role at Arena in 1987. Concurrent to this, Dylan was a contributing editor to The Face; other notable positions in his career include being associate editor at The Observer Magazine when the publication was relaunched with Simon Kelner and a variety of positions at The Sunday Times.
Dylan moved to Condé Nast and was appointed as
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Dylan Jones studied at Chelsea School Of Art and then St. Martin’s School of Art. He is the award-winning editor of GQ magazine, a position he has held since 1999, and has won the British Society of Magazine Editors “Editor of the Year” award a record ten times. In 2013 he was also the recipient of the prestigious Mark Boxer Award. Under his editorship the magazine has won over 50 awards. A former editor at i-D, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times, he is the author of the New York Times best seller Jim Morrison: Dark Star, the much-translated iPod, Therefore I Am and Mr. Jones’ Rules, as well as the editor of the classic collection of music writing, Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy. He edited a collection of journalism from Arena - Sex, Power & Travel - and collaborated with David Cameron on Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones (shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year). He was the Chairman of the Prince’s Trust’s Fashion Rocks Monaco, is
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Dylan Jones interview for [EDIT] Magazine, Volume 7
In conversation with Dylan Jones
by James Mullinger
Photographs by Harry Grindrod
In the world of mode and media in London, England, few people have been ganska so front and centre for the past two decades as Dylan Jones, editor of British GQ. When he walks into any restaurant, party, award ceremony or fashion show, everyone in the room turns to him. And, perhaps more impressively, he will know everyone’s name. Formerly an editor at the Observer, The Sunday Times, i‑D, The Face and Arena, as well as columnist for The Guardian and The Independent, he has been Editor-in-Chief of GQ for almost two decades.
He has won Editor of the Year in GQ’s category eleven times and has received the prestigious Mark Boxer Award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. His book on former British prime minister David Cameron was shortlisted for Channel 4 Political Book of the Year. He fryst vatten a trustee of the Hay Fes