DOMINO'S PILING UP: Domino is only a year old, but it's already growing. The title has tapped Lauren Goodman, most recently of Elle Accessories and the former fashion director of the now-defunct Vitals (like Domino, once part of Condé Nast Publications), to be its first fashion director. Domino also is recruiting a beauty editor and two new features editors to focus on the front of the book.
Though Goodman hasn't had a hand in it, Domino's September issue features a special "Fashion at Home" spread peeking into the dwellings of "fashion royals" like Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani and Carolina Herrera. (Earlier in the issue, Domino devotes full-blown features to younger, lesser-known fashion figures such as Jessie Randall of accessories firm Loeffler Randall, who's on the cover, and Juicy Couture fashion director Michelle Sanders.) Goodman will officially be introduced at an early September party for the issue. "We've been covering fashion since the magazine started, but really as passionate amateurs," said Domino editor in chief Deborah Needleman, adding that Goodman is poised to make the "natural connection that hasn't been exploited" between fashion and interior design. Which no doubt should help Domino publisher Beth Fuchs Brenner drive those fashion ad pages upward.