AHAHAH!
There is no "list" get over it, you guys sound so funny!
Even if their was, that would not save her, once as long as the magazine is called "Vogue" everyone will die to be in it.
As for Aliona, that's a rumor, shes clarified that already, and I'm sure they would like to keep an EIC close to the American culture. Which counts Russia OUT.
I think you would be quite surprised by how similar the upper echelons of Russian and American society are in terms of lifestyle and social mores. On the one hand, you have the fairly aristocratic types, although the US doesn't have aristocrats as such. But we're talking Old Money, even if the White Russians suffered the Bolshevik interlude. And then, on the other hand, we have the New Money, and I can assure you that Russian New Money is every bit as loud, vulgar and brash as American New Money.
However, I agree with your view of some of the posts here as funny. I wonder how old some of the posters are. Russian Vogue is probably the most profitable Vogue on the European landmass. It is also the best all-rounder in terms of content, although this is lost on Western European and American readers who, of course, don't read Russian and, frankly, don't read much in any language. Look at this forum, for instance: nobody discusses editorial content of any of these magazines. It's all about the pictures.
I wouldn't say that everyone is dying to be in Vogue. That might have been true in the past, when Vogue really stood for something. However, the "brand" has been diluted by licence deals around the world and the general quality of the mainstream Vogues is demonstrably lower than those of even fifteen or twenty years ago.
Italian Vogue is still good as a photographic showcase. French Vogue is OK but not what it was under editors like Irene Silvani and Joan Buck. British Vogue is aimed at dumpy but snobbish mums in cardigans and 4x4s. American Vogue is aimed at Money, like Russian Vogue. However, Russian Vogue has more class than American Vogue - because Russia is a much older, more evolved culture - and American Vogue might benefit greatly from having Doletskaya at the helm.
Let's face it: the Americans who subscribe to or buy American Vogue form part of the 7% of US citizens who possess passports. They are rather more sophisticated than the bulk of their compatriots who, charming though they are, are more likely to be reading magazines about assault rifles, tractors and two-headed births than Vogue, which they probably consider to be part of the Devil's work.
The majority of the readership of American Vogue would not find a Russian Editor-in-Chief of Doletskaya's social and intellectual calibre at all off-putting. Those of you who think Sarah Palin is a great choice as VP-in-waiting clearly think differently. But the Cold War is over, you know, even if certain people are trying to kickstart it back into life. And Doletskaya gets the ads in, which is what these magazines are all about. If you look at Russian Vogue, you'll see that the ads are the same as those in other leading Vogues.
PK
