Stefano Tonchi is an award-winning editor, author, curator and public speaker specialising in contemporary and future Fashion culture.

Tonchi has served as Director of W Mag; Editor and Creator of T: The New York Times Style Magazine; Fashion Creative Director of Esquire and L'Uomo Vogue; and Contributing Global Chief Creative Officer for L'OFFICIEL. He is currently (2023) Editorial Director of PALMER.

Tonchi has been the curator of many exhibitions such as Italiana: L'Italia vista dalla Moda 1971 - 2011 and Bellissima: L'Italia dell'Alta Moda 1945 - 1968.

His books include: Uniform: Order and Disorder; Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the ‘80s; W: The First 40 Years; and L'Officiel 100: One Hundred People and Ideas from a Century of Fashion.
Tonchi has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Parsons.
He is on the board of the International Centre of Photography.