Robin Givhan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former senior critic-at-large for The Washington Post, and author of Make It Ours: Crashing the Gate of Culture with Virgil Abloh, which came out in June 2025. Make it Ours examines the ways in which Virgil Abloh changed the fashion industry and how the fashion industry transformed to allow an unconventional creative force like Abloh to flourish.
She is also the author of The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled Into The Spotlight And Made History.
Her journalism has also appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Essence, and New York magazine, The Daily Beast and the New Yorker, among other publications. I’ve contributed to several books including Runway Madness, No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and The Rights of Garment Workers, and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers. I’m also the author, along with The Washington Post photo staff, of Michelle: Her First Year as First Lady.
