Her Eye Has Traveled

Tonne Goodman’s life in fashion has whisked her across the globe. In a new book, the editor retraces her steps.

For the past two decades, fashion director Tonne Goodman has traveled the world for Vogue—from the Great Wall of China to Lima, Peru, to Madrid and (her personal highlight) Kenya’s Lake Victoria with Lupita Nyong’o. Wherever she goes, she comes armed only with her singular eye for elegance, a Dries van Noten coat over her arm, and a carry-on wheelie carefully packed with three pairs of white Levi’s 511s, black and navy Organic by John Patrick sweaters, Brooks Brothers pajamas, Louboutin’s Chelsea boots, black suede Belgian loafers, her father’s leather belts, and a handful of Charvet foulard scarves, which recall the print of her favorite smocked dress that she wore as a little girl growing up on the Upper East Side.

Many of these odysseys are revealed in Point of View: Four Decades of Defining Style (Abrams), a lavish visual biography that reveals, among many other things, that Goodman’s taste was nurtured from the earliest age through the influence of her stylish parents, the artist Marian Powers and the dashing doctor Edmund Goodman—who no less than Alfred Eisenstaedt considered the handsomest couple in New York.