 After leaving Cambridge in 1966, where she was the first woman who signed up to work for "Varsity", the university's newspaper, she joined "The Times" as a junior reporter.At age 24, Menkes took her first job as a fashion journalist at the "London Evening Standard", where she had been recruited by editor Charles Wintour, who became her mentor.Then, she joined the "Daily Express", before returning to The Times, where she met her late husband and father of her three sons, David Spanier.