Tina Brown
Bravo Greenlights 'All That Glitters,' a Scripted Series On Anna Wintour and Tina Brown
Someone get Meryl Streep ASAP!
Robin Givhan Laid Off at Newsweek
As Newsweek prepares to shutter its print magazine for good to become a purely digital publication, several staffers won't make it through the transition. We were surprised to learn that Pulitzer prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan will be among those laid off according to Daily Intel.
Newsweek to Karl Lagerfeld: We're Not Dying. At All.
Karl Lagerfeld took aim at Newsweek and Tina Brown yesterday, telling reporters at a press conference in Tokyo that "Tina Brown’s magazine is not doing well at all," and that Brown was "dying.” He went on to say that he felt "sorry" for Tina Brown, "who was such a success at ‘Vanity Fair,’ to go down with a shitty little paper like this. I’m sorry.” All of this in response to a question from a reporter about a (quite thoughtful) article Robin Givhan wrote about Lagerfeld in which she called him "overrated" and "spread too thin." So are Newsweek and Tina Brown actually dying? Not so much. We reached out to Newsweek and they responded with the following statement, packed with stats indicating the magazine's success:
Karl Lagerfeld Calls Newsweek a 'Sh*tty Little Paper'
A day without a krazy kwote from Karl Lagerfeld is like a day without sunshine. Here's today's gem: Remember that article Robin Givhan wrote for Newsweek/The Daily Beast where she called Karl Lagerfeld "overrated" and questions whether he was "spread too thin"? Karl Lagerfeld sure does. And he's still pissed about it. During a press conference yesterday in Tokyo, he didn't hold back when asked about Tina Brown and Newsweek.