W.David Marx, Contributing Editor, Tokyo

W. David Marx is BoF’s Japanese fashion guru, providing dispatches and fashion business intelligence from the streets and boardrooms of Tokyo.

David is a writer and fashion market analyst and currently acts as Tokyo City Editor for CNNGo. He was formerly the Chief Editor of MEKAS – a web-based news-service in Tokyo providing companies with English language information about the Japanese fashion market. Marx is also a former editor of Tokion (U.S.) and the Harvard Lampoon, and his writing and translation has appeared in magazines like GQ, Brutus, Nylon, and Harper’s Magazine.

He is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A., East Asian Studies) and Keio University (M.A., Marketing and Consumer Behavior).