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Tuesday May 21st, 2013

Alexa Chung, Amy Schumer Talk Broken Hearts, Body Image at Glamour‘s ‘These Girls’ Event
Events

Alexa Chung, Amy Schumer Talk Broken Hearts, Body Image at Glamour‘s ‘These Girls’ Event

Feminism was alive and well at Glamour‘s ‘These Girls’ theater event held at Joe’s Pub last night–even if it was of the post-post variety.

“I’ve never burnt a bra, or even thought about burning a bra,” said Gloria Steinem when she introduced the show which featured monologues written and performed by Emma Roberts, Dianna Agron, Alexa Chung, Amy Schumer, Lucy Punch and Zosia Mamet.

Exploring feminism without submitting to cliches was definitely the theme of the night.

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Published at 3:48 PM

Wednesday March 13th, 2013

Tuesday March 12th, 2013

Rihanna and Taylor Swift Tank at Newsstands
Magazines

Rihanna and Taylor Swift Tank at Newsstands

Rihanna and Taylor Swift may have been at the top of their fame game in 2012–both released new albums, courted controversy in their love lives, and were damn near inescapable–but apparently people didn’t really care to see them on the cover of fashion glossies.

Both starlets were newsstand duds, according to the Alliance for Audited Media’s annual report of the best and worst selling glossy covers. So which cover stars did boost sales?

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Published at 10:11 AM

Monday February 18th, 2013

What Fashion Week is Like for an EIC: Glamour’s Cindi Leive Shares Her New York Fashion Week Diary With Us!
Fashion Week

What Fashion Week is Like for an EIC: Glamour’s Cindi Leive Shares Her New York Fashion Week Diary With Us!

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!

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Published at 11:37 AM

Wednesday January 30th, 2013

Monday January 28th, 2013

Glamour‘s New Executive Beauty Director Ying Chu on Beauty ‘Dos and Don’ts’ and Expanding in the Digital Space
Beauty

Glamour‘s New Executive Beauty Director Ying Chu on Beauty ‘Dos and Don’ts’ and Expanding in the Digital Space

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.

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Published at 2:10 PM

Wednesday January 23rd, 2013

Thursday November 29th, 2012

Get the Scoop on Glamour.com’s Relaunch and New Hires
Media

Get the Scoop on Glamour.com’s Relaunch and New Hires

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).

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Published at 2:00 PM

Tuesday November 13th, 2012

Jenna Lyons Thanks Her Son and Girlfriend in Inspiring Acceptance Speech at Glamour‘s Women of the Year Awards

Jenna Lyons Thanks Her Son and Girlfriend in Inspiring Acceptance Speech at Glamour‘s Women of the Year Awards

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lena Dunham, Pakistani activist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Olympic gold medalists Missy Franklin and Gabby Douglas, Annie Leibovitz. These were just a few of the impressive names honored at last night’s Glamour Women of the Year awards. But the honoree we were most looking forward to seeing at Carnegie Hall was J.Crew President Jenna Lyons.

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Published at 11:30 AM

Monday October 22nd, 2012