New Vogue chief gets a headstart
FOR years Edwina McCann and Kellie Hush were the best of friends, but now the newly appointed editors of Vogue Australia and Harper’s Bazaar are busy drawing battlelines after weeks of dramatic changes within their respective glamour magazines.
Inside the battle-weary offices of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, it’s all about the September issue, and this year’s are shaping up to be a couple of doozies.
Newly installed Vogue editor-in-chief McCann, who famously defected from Harpers, is busy nutting out final details for her September cover, due out early next month, which will be her first for the prestigious title.
Details are being kept under tight wraps, but PS hears no expense is being spared to make sure McCann makes her mark with the magazine, and is planning a complete overhaul of the title in November.
However her replacement at Harpers, the former Sydney Morning Herald fashion editor Hush, won’t show her first cover until November as McCann had already stitched up the magazine’s September cover before she left. PS hears it was too expensive to scrap. It presents a frustrating situation for Hush, who is no doubt keen to show her mettle.
Another headache left behind by McCann for Harpers was a big promotion being planned to launch the September issue, one of the magazine’s biggest in years. Harpers had commissioned a special film called Being Bazaar to be screened in a Sydney cinema to celebrate the issue. The film features such luminaries as Karl Lagerfeld talking about all things fashion.
In the original version McCann had a major starring role in the film, presenting an embarrassing situation for the magazine now she is heading the arch-rival title Vogue.
However, PS hears McCann has since been edited out, replaced with fresh footage of Hush, filmed just last week.
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Sydney Morning Herald
What a coup! To have two September issues of the world's most prolific fashion brands - both under your editorship - on the newsstands at the same time is out of this world. Not many people can/have ever done that before.
