In addition to attending approximately one million fashion shows, Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive has to fulfill her responsibilities as a TODAY show contributor, as a boss, as the host of panel on fashion week’s first ever hackathon, and as a wife and mother to two.
Click through to see what fashion week was like through Leive’s eyes–she’s added her own captions too!
Swatchit, founded by Ramzi Abdoch, Jagjeet Gill, Jackson Lin, Henrika Makilya and Paul Yun (pictured), is a b2b platform that connects global designers with emerging market artisans and overseas producers.
We braved the extreme cold in NYC last week to chat with Glamour‘s new executive beauty director, Ying Chu, about how she’ll update Glamour‘s beauty coverage, her personal beauty “dos and don’ts,” and how she’s going to approach online coverage now that Condé Nast has sunk a boatload of resources into a digital Glamour revamp.
With 5.5 million monthly uniques and five million followers on social media, Glamour.com is the largest web property out of Conde Nast’s women’s magazines. But Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive, along with Digital Managing Director Mike Hofman are looking to grow even bigger.
“These are numbers we’ve achieved with our old site, which is fine, but certainly not the kind of site that was going to take us out of the magazine companion site category and really make us a player,” Leive told us.
Despite the fact that ad pages in print mags still draw more money for publishers, Leive understand the importance of digital (something that can’t be said for all print editors).
We always imagined life of an Editor-in-Chief to be totally glamorous: Parties, fashion shows, air kisses with celebs. But it also means working as hard as you play. How do we know? We got none other than Glamour EIC Cindi Leive to give us a peek at what fashion week is really like for an editor of a major fashion glossy, mom, and cat owner (his name’s Luigi).
We knew that Victoria Beckham was going to cover Glamour‘s all-important September issue, but we didn’t know the full extent of her involvement. Not only is she lounging naked in a bubble bath (!!) on the cover, but she also guest-edited the issue, which you can preview here. Glamour‘s ad pages are down this September Read more →
There’s no better way to kick off New York fashion week than with the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection show. It’s sort of like the girl power prom of fashion week–everyone gets tricked out in red dresses and hairstyles that are way too dramatic, and they dance (and usually someone trips) their way down the Read more →
Glamour’s got a flashy new hire to go along with their new look (the mag just revealed a redesign for the important March spring fashion issue). Louise Roe has been named Fashion Editor at Large, just in time for fashion week. You might remember her as the cheery Brit who “stole” Olivia Palermo’s “job” at Elle on The City, or more recently, as the host of the awesomely feel-good yet under-the-radar makeover show Plain Jane on the CW.
“Anne Christensen and I are so excited to have Louise on board just as we’re rolling out a new kind of Glamour,” Cindi Leive said of the hire. “Louise is both aspirational It-girl and accessible chic, which exactly sums up what we’re into at Glamour.”
Roe, 29, is obviously psyched.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy To whet our appetites even more for Jason Wu’s adorable Target collection, the designer went on the Today show this morning to promote it and we actually got to see the clothes moving on real people.
Last night we headed over to Carnegie Hall for a night of inspiration, heart-warming speeches and, most importantly, girl power. For those of you who don’t know, we are of course talking about Glamour‘s Women of the Year awards.
The annual event, which honors extraordinary women, this year doled out awards to the year’s standout stars–from the most talked about songstresses like Lea Michele and J.Lo to the visionaries who truly changed the world, such as Egypt’s “Facebook Girl” and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, as well as legends like feminist Gloria Steinem.
While the there were too many wise words to count (Arianna Huffington reminding us that “failure is just a stepping stone to success,” Gloria Steinem assuring us that there is life after 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, “life is just one big surprise”) we’ve managed to at least narrow down the night’s best dressed. Though with ladies as remarkable as these, that too was a challenge. Click through to see the best dressed from the night.
Last evening Gilt City held a sold-out cocktail party fêting Cindi Leive’s recent foray into cookbook writing, and to our unexpected chagrin Glamour’s editor-in-chief pulled a Paula Deen when getting rather intimate with raw chicken. 100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know is filled with foolproof culinary ideas, and for skeptics who think such a title lacks audience, think again–it was a New York Times’ bestseller for two consecutive weeks.
Held in a midtown kitchen event space (who knew such places existed?), Gilt City subscribers giddily crowded around Leive as she prepared the book’s signature, “Engagement Chicken.” The energetic editrix (dressed in Stella McCartney’s enviable Resort florals) explained to us, “One of our fashion editors gave this recipe to an assistant who made it for her boyfriend, after eating he it dropped to his knees and proposed!” The recipe has spawned four more Glamour Girl engagements with an additional 75 readers having written to the mag in appreciation of Engagement Chicken’s magical powers.
Joyce Culver, 92nd Street Y“Fashion advertisements are hateful,” said Isaac Mizrahi at tonight’s 92nd Street Y panel discussion on the future of fashion, “but they work.” Glamour‘s Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive moderated the talk between The Washington Post‘s Robin Givhan, Ashley Olsen and Isaac. The group discussed Michelle Obama, the economy, Ralph Lauren’s ad scandal, fast Read more →
