Edward Enninful Departing British Vogue as EIC, Promoted to New Global Role within Condé Nast

[DK92]

Anyone knows why?

What's tea with Wintour vs Meisel???

As far as I remember the last time Meisel did something for Vogue US was the Fei Fei shoot for the Met in 2015, when he was going to work exclusively for VI with the China theme, he even fought with France and VI used it several different photographers, since then he has never been exclusive to VI.

 

[aracic]

As far as I remember the last time Meisel did something for Vogue US was the Fei Fei shoot for the Met in 2015

Actually, the last he shot for US Vogue was the 2016 MET story with Rianne.

 

[8eight]

Is there any way to find out sales figures for Edwards Vogue?

 

[tigerrouge]

For reporting on magazine ABCs, I always used to read Media Guardian. I see there's a July 2023 story about there being one remaining large-scale magazine printer.

 

[8eight]

Thanks. Was after individual sales.

 

[Benn98]

^I'm so confused

Anyway, now that we know March 2024 will be his final issue, that gives CN enough time to find a successor. There has been a lot of veiled and direct criticism about the new CN structure and my guess is that it will reach a point where it will have to change. Remember advertisers would also have read Alexandra's little rant in the Mail. Notice how American Vogue is now the only edition where the EIC still have full creative control.

For the UK edition specifically, there simply must be a proper editor. It's either you hire someone like Justine Picardie who can get in there and get the job done, or you hire another big personality to carry the Vogue (I cannot believe I'm typing this and that it's actually a reality). But all this nonsense about 'editorial director/consultant' won't wash.

Conde Nast has done so much societal damage to the concept of an editor, on a much broader scale. And all because they believe having more control and power over something automatically means it will be more successful. In a creative industry! Nothing stops a small publishing house in, oh I dunno, Copenhagen to say 'let's move with the times and hire an editorial director instead of the editor, I mean Vogue is doing it.'

 

[vogue28]

The position of British Vogue’s Head of Editorial Content role is advertised here: Head of Editorial Content - British Vogue.

 

[Kimy Jo]

The position of British Vogue’s Head of Editorial Content role is advertised here: Head of Editorial Content - British Vogue.

I will apply

 

[Kimy Jo]

• 10+ years of experience in a senior editorial role, managing and editing teams of writers, editors/fashion editors, and creatives with a keen interest in developing talent and strong expertise in digital, video, and print media.
  

But why though, if they only will decide the orders of the reprints in the mag lol

 

[caioherrero]

• 10+ years of experience in a senior editorial role, managing and editing teams of writers, editors/fashion editors, and creatives with a keen interest in developing talent and strong expertise in digital, video, and print media.

But why though, if they only will decide the orders of the reprints in the mag lol

Euginie don’t have 10 years of experience in a senior editorial role ‍♂️

 

[Kerg]

The position of British Vogue’s Head of Editorial Content role is advertised here: Head of Editorial Content - British Vogue.

no idea about the salary and extras ?

 

[MON]

I can't believe they abolished the position of EIC and have the courage to make people believe that the brand still means something. Imagine Harper's Bazaar, Elle, +++ having their own respective EICs with partial (at least) freedom while thriving with reprints and here's Vogue.

I still don't get the purpose behind these "Head of Editorial Content" roles even in the backdrop of a potential regionalization. I mean, the role of an EIC is beyond fashion editorials right? It's more than that. There's still the written content, and all other content that localizes the magazine (culture features, local scene coverage +++). Yet somehow, they thought that having shared editorials was enough to abolish the EIC role and rebrand it as HEC. Cool. Genial. Innovative. Next.

Also, the fact that there's literally a job listing for it makes it 100000x funnier/unserious.

As an aside, there's a puff piece saying that Edward's promotion made him a step closer to Anna's position. Convince yourself.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

^The feud between Franca and Meisel never happened. Mi source, so close to Franca, told me that Meisel was tired of making a 14 pages story plus cover every month, and he was leaving VI for good after 2016. His March 2017 was going to be the January issue for that year and also was the last story approved by Franca.

 

[blueorchid]

I just love that the ad reads like any other bullsh*t job ad.

 

[MulletProof]

no idea about the salary and extras ?

I don't think the UK has salary transparency laws..

I can't believe this short era required one of those farewell tours.. it's still July so.. 9 months of 'highlights' and 'thank yous'? jesus. I feel like British Vogue is paying an excessively high price for those long years of 'more dash than cash' , yes they were dumb, but they didn't warrant ALL of this!

 

[caioherrero]

no idea about the salary and extras ?

less than they would pay an editor in chief

 

[mepps]

The comments in this thread are so ridiculous I had to join just to say something.

Edward Enninful is a sad, pathetic diversity hire in a magazine that has a 200,000 circulation in a country of 68 million people. When your figures are so low you know this magazine is nothing but a conjob on advertisers. Totally irrelevant. As most of fashion is really, nobody cares except for a very small amount of people who can't afford the clothes. Nobody cared about that runway of Versace with all the sups, only the media who becomes more and more disconnected from reality as every day goes by.

Edward achieved nothing except rehashing Vogue archive covers, hiring people solely for the color of their skin and turning Vogue into a liberal ideological rag. Corporations are losing millions doubling down on diversity quotas and ideology and many are already changing course so I don't see a bright future for him.

Some have commented about power on this thread. You want to talk about power? There is a certain political candidate who donated millions to Anna Wintour events that she has banned from ever being invited again, banned his wife and can't get through an issue without slagging him off who amassed 80 million votes and now has an almost 50 point lead on everyone. THAT is power. Anna Wintour has no power, and neither do most of the fashion people, the only power they get is the one giving to them by the wannabes who want to belong to their exclusionary circle but you could end Vogue, the Met Gala tomorrow, all of it, the good designers will continue to sell and have robust earnings.

It's only the mediocre grifters who need an Anna Wintour and a Met Gala. I always say, I would love to see the sales figures. I would love to see the paid attendance to the Met year long versus what it costs to produce the Met Gala, numbers do not lie, watercooler conversations do not lie either, which incidentally, I have never heard Wintour mentioned even once.

I am shocked that they are still people paying for subscriptions on this thread, I have kept up with fashion but I stopped buying the magazines a long time ago.

Anyway, back to the topic, nothing of value was lost and if Vogue UK survives, Enninful's tenure will be remembered as what it was: a forced fad and a mistake.

All of this.

 

[fenty]

Head of Editorial Content is complete BS!!! CN sabotaging Vogue in realtime

 

[A.D.C.]

All of this.

You seem to have very little idea of how actual power works. Furthermore your guy may have gotten 80 millions votes but the other guy received more. An L is still an L. Haven’t come to grips about that I see.

 

[Benn98]

Mepps are you also a...nevermind!

Regarding Meisel, surprised that he thought shooting a VI cover story was too much work when there were greats like Lindbergh who rushed when they got the opportunity to shoot one. He worked for the only Vogue that exercised their creative freedom. And it's not as though there were better editions or brands to work for at the time. I mean 2016 specifically was one of the creatively lowest periods in fashion.

I will apply

I don't think the UK has salary transparency laws..!

Not necessary to be honest. You can discuss that during your interview and if you're not happy with the offered salary range you can always just end your application. Think of it this way, there is likely someone in that corporate structure that will earn more than the EIC, but positioned lower on the overall hierarchy. Or vice versa - they're positioned higher but the advertised job spec outearns them.
Disclosing salaries in job ads just leads to resentment among existing employees.