Remember that scene in The September Issue when then-Vogue publisher Tom Florio excitedly revealed to a room full of press that the September 2007 pre-crash Vogue would be the magazine’s largest issue ever? Well that record (the tome was 840 pages) will be broken come September. According to a spokesperson, this September’s Lady Gaga-covered Vogue Read more →
We alread know the covers, but how thick are this year’s all-important September issues going to be?
Pretty thick. Just when we thought print was dying, magazines are seeing an increase in ad pages, especially in fashion and beauty. Things are looking particularly good for Hearst, whose relatively recent acquisition, Elle, will debut Hearst’s largest September issue of all time. The fashion title will have 400 ad pages (annoying for us, but good for publishing!), up 14% from last year.
Clearly Elle‘s doing well over at Hearst–this news comes on the heels of four consecutive record-breaking issues in terms of ad pages. Fellow Hearst titles Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire were not exempt from the fashion and beauty ad page increase: the former increased by 16.6% to 360 pages, while the latter went up 23% to 237 pages. It’s Marie Claire’s largest issue ever.
Fashion people may be able to run a mile in Louboutins and fight their way through hectic sample sales, but when it comes to large New York City storms, they are really just big babies. {StyleBistro}
Between fabulous clothing, amazing apartments, and $100 blow-outs, it’s hard not to ponder the salaries of Conde Nast’s magazine editors. Here’s a guesstimated breakdown to sate your curiosity. {Fashion Etc.}
Austrian archeologists have found what is believed to be the oldest bra ever. *gasp* It’s age is speculated to be around 600 years old. {HuffPo}
Lady Gaga has released a video for her highly anticipated perfume. {Little Monsters}
Apparently people are now getting plastic surgery for fat toes. That seems toe-tally messed up. {HuffPo}
Are style blogs the new magazines? Discuss. {Racked}
New York City is a pretty fashionable place, so check out the girls who beat out the rest for a spot in Vashtie Kola’s roundup 50 Most Stylish Women in New York. {Complex}
When people say “everything is made in China these days,” they aren’t kidding. This includes the newest US Olympic uniforms. {HuffPo}
The Conde Nast College is no longer a myth. It will be opening in London’s Soho district in January 2013. {Refinery 29}
Didn’t think a “killer red lip” could actually kill your job, did you? Neither did Francine Siddaway, until she was fired for wearing too much make-up. {Stylelist}
Gucci has launched a year-round travel collection for those of us who need Gucci for every occasion. {WWD}
Jean Paul Gaultier has released his second collaboration with La Perla {WWD}
We got a peek at a preview for Carine Roifteld’s hotly anticipated new mag CR Fashion Book last week–a teaser featuring models in cropped wigs slinking around on mirrored floors that will run in V this Thursday. But we just heard a little bit of gossip about the first full issue, due out in September: Read more →
Carine Roitfeld‘s new fashion glossy CR is set to launch this September, and the fashion industry is pretty excited to see what she’ll dish up. Well, everyone except Condé Nast, that is, if a report in Page Six is to be believed.
According to the gossip column, Condé’s chairman Jonathan Newhouse has sent correspondence to photographers and editors “ordering” them not to work with Carine. Apparently he sent word to Mario Testino, Craig McDean, David Sims and the Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott team to “remind” them that they have exclusive agreements to shoot for Condé mags only. We had already heard that Testino wouldn’t be a part of the mag, but it sounds like Condé may be concerned that its other marquee names may de-camp over to Carine, who obviously has many friend in the industry. Page Six‘s source also told the paper that even those not under contractual obligation have been “discouraged” from working with Carine.
Burberry is being sued by the estate of Humphrey Bogart after they used an iconic image of the actor wearing a trenchcoat from the film Casablanca. Adding insult to injury, Bogart’s son asserts the trench in the photo was probably from rival brand Aquascutum. {Telegraph} Kate Middleton went to a wedding this weekend, and in Read more →
It’s not at all uncommon to see fashion magazines owned by the same publishing company recycle cover photos, especially for their foreign editions. But sometimes, repeat covers pop up under strange circumstances. For example, Carey Mulligan’s October 2010 US Vogue (a Condé Nast title) shot magically showed up on the cover of French ELLE‘s (owned Read more →
Sasha Pivovarova gave birth to a cute little “fairy princess” named Mia Isis… Collective awwww. {Twitter} Naomi Campbell cares about “good vibrations” and spent her birthday lighting candles in a church in Jerusalem. {Racked} PR All Stars host Angela Lindvall and new ANTM judge Rob Evans get involved in some sexy lucha libre for V Read more →
Seemingly out of nowhere, Fairchild Fashion Media, the unit of Condé Nast that publishes WWD and Style.com, announced that they had acquired NowManifest, which “hosts” fashion blogs BryanBoy, Fashion Toast, Anna Dello Russo, Mr. Blasberg, and Style by Kling. The acquisition is interesting because it means people who were once independent style bloggers are now part of one of the biggest media companies in existence. However, it also raises some questions, like…
Does Fairchild now technically own all of those blogs? Were the bloggers in on the deal? Or even aware of it? What changes will NowManifest and each of the blogs undergo as a result of the acquisition? What about editorial content?
While BryanBoy tells us he’s “thrilled to be working with Fairchild,” he reveals that he and the other bloggers–meaning Rumi Neely, Derek Blasberg and Anna Dello Russo–didn’t even know about the acquisition until less than 24 hours before it was announced–and even then he was lead to believe it was simply a partnership.
Revered fashion glossy Love is undergoing some changes.
For starters, Editor-in-chief Katie Grand launched her own personal Twitter last week, apart from Love‘s, which we assumed she was behind. Shortly thereafter, she hired herself some company at the top of Love‘s masthead. First, she gave ShowStudio’s Alexander Fury the role of “editor” at the magazine, announcing that he would oversee both print and online. Today, it was announced that Lulu Kennedy, founder of Fashion East, a non-profit that supports emerging designers, would become Love‘s Editor at Large. WWD reports that Kennedy’s first project will be scouting subjects for a Solve Sundsbo-lensed front-of-book portrait feature, for which, based on this tweet, Kennedy will be the first subject. Fury and deputy editor Isaac Lock will interview the subjects.
So what does all of this mean?
