Ingrid Sischy, a fashion editor and writer with fifty years of experience in the industry, died Friday at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after a long battle with breast cancer. She was was 63.
The industry veteran was a longtime Interview magazine editor who got her start working at the Museum of Modern Art before becoming editor of Artforum in 1980. In 1990, she took over Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Though she expected to stay only a few years, she remained at the publication for almost two decades, expanding its focus to all things fashion, art, music, photography, films and pop culture.