You either love her (practically everyone) or hate her (mostly designers whose lines she's spoken a little too frankly about at one point or another). One thing's for sure: it's hard not to have an opinion one way or the other on New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn.

If, for some reason, you don't know who Cathy Horyn is listen up: Cathy Horyn is a fashion journalist, working as a critic for The New York Times where she also keeps a highly noted and provocative blog called (On The Runway). She is only the second NYT fashion critic, succeeding the late Amy Spindler when Spindler retired in November 2003. She started her career in fashion journalism in Detroit, in 1986, writing for The Detroit News, then moved to Washington, DC after four years, reviewing fashion design for The Washington Post. She joined the NYT in 1998.

If you've never read a piece by her in the Times or read her blog, do yourself a favor and check it out. She's a unique voice in fashion, telling it like she sees it, instead of playing the doting journalist ever singing the praises of fashion and its designers who in others' eyes can do no wrong.

But please, don't confuse this with bitter or angry critic/blogger, who is at the opposite end of the spectrum: she's a critic in the true sense, hitting the rarely seen middle ground that is intellectual critique, not senseless bashing. Once you've read a few things by her, her voice will become clear.

From today till Friday 02.27.08, she'll be taking questions via this email at the Times. Feel free to write in and ask her anything your heart desires.

What do I want to know: how she can be so real in such a fake world? What's it like to get snubbed by a designer whose show you spoke frankly about? Is there anyone who's been downright nasty to her because she refused to sing his/her praises? If you know anything about her, she'd refuse to take the last question, as gossip and malintent aren't her thing. She's in the business to critique fashion, which she does like no other.