Fashion critic Cathy Horyn retires

Cathy Horyn, the fashion critic everyone loves to hate, is retiring from her post at the New York

Times. Ms Horyn, who has been in the role over 15 years, was often seen as controversial critic, giving sharp and negative reviews of the catwalk shows, if she so saw fit.

Horyn famously had an 8-year fued with Hedi Slimane, who publically banned her from the Saint Laurent shows after she wrote: "after removing the “Yves” from “Yves Saint Laurent,” Slimane severed the label’s “connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power.”

In a tribute to her unique voice, The Times published a memo: "How do we measure the impact that Cathy has made? Is it in the 1,123 bylined pieces she has written in the past 15 years? The promising designers she discovered, the unoriginal ones she dismissed, the talents that she celebrated in ways that illuminated their creative process for a readership that ranged from the executive offices of LVMH to the bargain shoppers at Barneys Warehouse? We do so in all of those ways to mark the work of a woman who is the preeminent fashion critic of her generation and who has set an almost impossible standard for those who may follow."