Goldsmith wrote "Bacall and the Boys" in 1968, a television special about Lauren Bacall in Paris with the then young, unproven avant-garde designers Yves St. Laurent and Giorgio Armani as well as Pierre Cardin and Marc Bohan of Dior.
In 1974 Barbara Goldsmith became an adviser to the Hearst Corporation and then Senior Editor of Harper's Bazaar, attracting top writers to the publication.