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Editorial Musical Chairs: New Editors at i-D, GQ Style, Architectural Digest and More

This week in Editorial Musical Chairs, two former T employees found new jobs. Bifen Xu, formerly T‘s associate fashion editor, has been named fashion editor at New York Magazine. T‘s former fashion market editor Melissa Ventosa Martin is now style director at Glamour.

Town & Country snapped up W‘s Jamie Rosen to fill Janet Carlson’s position as beauty director. Town & Country‘s former beauty and health editor (which is different from beauty director) Nina Judar was named Good Housekeeping‘s beauty director.

WSJ‘s new EIC Deborah Needleman brought on another former Domino staffer–Lauren Goodman–to consult on fashion coverage for the Wall Street Journal‘s new lifestyle section.

Ben Reardon, former editor of i-D has been named editor of British GQ Style. He has been replaced by former deputy editor Holly Shackelton.

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Magazines

Here Comes the Sun?

According to this morning’s Wall Street Journal, there may just be a bright spot on the horizon for magazines after all. Apparently advertisers went on a bit of a spending spree in the last quarter of 2009 and it’s happily carrying over into 2010, even in the newspaper sector which was suffering even more terribly [...]

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Quote of the Day

“If we consider fashion a window into our culture, we should wonder what it says that so many stylish women have been clomping around like draft horses in giant ankle-boots that are often adorned with buckles, straps and fringe. Fashion publicist Alison Brod pegs booties with skirts as one of the year’s worst looks. ‘No [...]

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Mon Dieu

The French courts are busy this week. Last night, a Paris judge fined eBay $2.6 million for selling LVMH products, more specifically, lots and lots of Louis Vuitton perfume. LVMH already took home $40 million from eBay less than two years ago, and since then, the online auction site’s taken various measures, including instituting the [...]

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People Are Talking

Save the French Artisans!

Much like New York’s Garment District, France’s industry of specialized artisans is in trouble. And even the prime minister is getting involved, according to the Wall Street Journal. One major topic of discussion is expected to be rules on labeling, as in making sure it is known exactly where a garment is produced and if [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Keeping Score: Let the NYFW wrap-ups begin. First up, the Wall Street Journal‘s scorecard. {WSJ} Tweet, Tweet: Britt and I developed a pretty serious Twitter addiction over the past 10 days. We literally couldn’t stop ourselves and almost lost it when our phones died. She’s already in London, so you can keep up by following [...]

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People Are Talking

Got Milk?

Eco and sustainable fashion has been de rigeur in certain circles for some time now. But I seriously had no idea you could make clothing from milk until I read this article this morning on WSJ.com. That’s right, fabric created 100% from milk proteins is upon us. And I love the idea that using milk [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

ABC’s: Agyness Deyn’s the face of Anna Sui’s AW09 cosmetics campaign. You can buy the makeup and Sui’s new line of hair products at her Soho store, though we’d avoid whatever made Agy’s hair look like that. {BeautyCounter} More to Love: More facts on Fashion’s Night Out, including this scary tidbit, “one-out-of-10 retail-industry employees [are] [...]

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People Are Talking

What to Wear to the Company Picnic?

As we mentioned in Mid-Day Snack, our company just launched a new site today called Going Concern that caters to accountant and CFO types in the same way we do to you, Above the Law does to lawyers, and Dealbreaker to Wall Streeters. Here we were thinking that there would probably be very little crossover [...]

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People Are Talking

Mangenta, Really?

When we spotted the headline, “Hot Pink? Call It Mangenta” in the Wall Street Journal of all places, we definitely did a doubletake. And so we read on. Apparently “mangenta” is a new name for fuchsia coined by hotelier Chip Conley. We think he’s mistaken in thinking this makes the color more masculine. Not that [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

For Sure: Anja’s on the cover of Vogue Nippon’s beauty issue and Daily Feed thinks it’s time the girl landed a cosmetics contract. Um, yes. {Models} Ah!: The thirteen-year-old girl inside me is dying over No Doubt’s performance on The Today Show this morning. The twenty-four-year old is loving the Balmain (I think) Current/Elliott jeans [...]

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Lacroix Needs Help

Christian Lacroix’s in need of new financial backing. Florida based Falic Group, who bought the house from LVMH in 2005 is said to be looking for someone to buy a majority stake in the company. In the past four years, they’ve opened two stores stateside and almost doubled the number of employees. Still, they’re not [...]

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