^^^ Gilles on paper, possesses pragmatism, business sense, and a vision at large. And frankly, it’s professionals like him whom are ideal for the role of EIC— more so in the extremely corporate-driven days. Carine’s Vogue would never make it to the light of days, these days. (I wonder if Franca is still with us, how would her Vogue have evolved to…??? Unfortunately like Emmanuelle, she would likely have been terminated, or left on her own. This era of Vogue has no place for such a highly singular vision of high fashion.
You know, Tom Ford would potentially make a great EIC— with the right team…
@James Oliver: At the height of their very best, Mario, Annie, Meisel and I&V will always remain the pinnacle of high fashion vision. Their best work has secured them honourable places in the fashion parthenon. However, their current work are a matter of… lowering one's expectations while churning out their signatures over and over to the point being tedious, to put it politely. And as EIC, no way LOL Someone like Meisel in his current state, needs the push of an extremely strong team to produce solid work (and even that work is too reminiscent of past glories), like what he’s currently doing for Zara. Left to his own devices…. and backed by a not-so-strong team? …Vogue UK’s shoots are the result.
@kasper!: Milan’s would be an endless churn of naked/semi-naked men LOL His 500+ pages of comp-card effort
Fashion For Men is evidence of that. Nice— for a very niche reader, but also too much of a gorgeous thing over and over, can be monotonous.