Liz Goldwyn is a shining example of a multi-hyphenate: she is an author, filmmaker, actress, writer, founder of The Sex Ed—a recently launched multimedia platform dedicated to education about sex, health and consciousness—and also a walking encyclopedia of fashion history.
Born into a Hollywood film industry family, she credits her film producer father, Samuel Goldwyn Jr, as her mentor. “My father would teach me about art,” she says. “He told me stories about the people in paintings, and I always imagined their costumes the same way that Fellini used costumes in films—as part of their character.”
Her fascination with clothes began at an early age. “For me, the interest was not so much the fashion but the craft and what a garment can express about history, memory, time, love and loss.”
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Goldwyn also had a passion for art, which eventually led her to New York City, where she studied photography and art history at School of Visual Arts. In 1997, while she was still a college student, she was hired as a consultant and curator for Sotheby’s newly created fashion department.
Goldwyn’s accolades are almost too many to list, but include a period as the New York editor of French Vogue from 2001 to 2002, as well as curating and producing several exhibitions, including a costume collaboration with Chanel.