From Luckymag.com to Style.com, plenty of fashion editorial sites have experimented with e-commerce. Mostly by linking directly to online retailers that sell items hand-picked by the fashion site’s editors. Last year, Instyle.com users bought $10 million worth of clothing, shoes and accessories through ShopStyle, an aggregator of products sold by online fashion boutiques. ShopStyle is Read more →
This morning the four big magazine publishing houses–Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Inc, Meredith– and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced their much-talked about joint venture to create digital storefronts for their products and the technology to make them more viable on e-readers, tablets, and mobile devices. The project doesn’t have a name yet, but people are Read more →
The dark days of print publishing have hit every player in the industry. Some harder than others but no one has been spared from a massive downturn in ad sales and loads of layoffs. This week is expected to bring another large wave at Time Inc. Mediaweek is reporting that in response the heads of Read more →
Bloody Good: Those are $800 blood brooches. Ick, but they fit perfectly with our Halloween spirit today. But really how does one even think to design something like that? {The Moment} Get Online: As the print world crumbles, new magazines continue to launch on the interwebs. We love that Glossy is put together bi-monthly by Read more →
Time Inc. is halting production of its fashion title offshoot, Time Style & Design, according to Keith Kelly over at the Post. The magazine was publishing quarterly under the direction of former Anna protégé and pre-Glenda Harper’s Bazaar EIC, Kate Betts. Like so many other publications, the collapse of the luxury market is to blame. Read more →
Last week, you might remember that ELLE Accessories kind of folded, along with a few more print magazines, and CosmoGIRL! died just before that. Now, Time Inc’s announced that they’re cutting 600 jobs from their company, instituting a total restructuring of the management of their titles (which includes In Style, easily the most widely-read fashion Read more →
