The Business of Magazines

[Bernie Flood]

That rumour just spent a chill down my spine.

Hearst is ahead of Conde Nasty when it comes to Digital innovation

 

[tigerrouge]

Posted on vogue.co.uk:

A First Look At Edward Enninful’s Highly Anticipated New Memoir
Edward Enninful’s memoir, A Visible Man, will be published in September. Here, a first look at the cover, photographed by Rafael Pavarotti.
BY KERRY MCDERMOTT

22 March 2022

In A Visible Man, Edward Enninful recounts his journey from teen model to the very top of the fashion industry. For a Black, gay and working class immigrant, the trajectory was an improbable one – the stuff of fashion fairytales, almost. Now – thanks in no small part to Enninful’s efforts to champion inclusivity over the past 30 years – the path is clear for countless other creatives from diverse backgrounds.

“An outsider who found his way into the inner sanctum,” is how Ghanaian-born Enninful, British Vogue’s editor-in-chief and Vogue’s European editorial director, describes himself as he reflects on his rise. Despite the front row seats, the A-list inner circle, even the endorsement of the Palace (Enninful was awarded an OBE in 2016 for services to the fashion industry, and is a global ambassador for the Prince’s Trust), he has never let go of that unique perspective, nor his determination to always put inclusivity at the heart of his work.

The portrait that appears on the book’s cover – revealed for the first time today – was taken by Rafael Pavarotti, a young Brazilian photographer emblematic of the change-making that has defined Enninful’s career. “Rafael is still in his twenties, but to me he is really a young master,” says the author. “His pictures always lift the race – he just loves Black people. I chose Rafael because he is someone who understood my journey.” Pavarotti, who is passionate about Black and indigenous representation in fashion, previously captured British Vogue’s February 2022 cover. The story spotlighted nine spectacular African models – Adut Akech and Anok Yai among them – whose success reflects the seismic shift that has been unfolding on fashion’s once Eurocentric runways.

Of course, choosing to champion next-generation talent is characteristic of Enninful’s approach. “I wrote the book for the new generation – the young creatives who have watched me grow up, succeed, and make mistakes – so it makes sense for me to be seen through Rafael’s eyes,” he says. For the photographer, who grew up admiring Enninful’s work, being asked to take the portrait was a “great honour”. “I always admired Edward, and after getting to know him better, I realised he is one of the best people I have ever met,” Pavarotti tells Vogue. “Both personally and professionally, I learn so much from him. This cover reflects his interior, so beautiful and unique, like this book, which is an extension of his universe.”

A Visible Man will be published around the world in September, towards the end of what has already been a milestone year for Enninful, who last month celebrated his 50th birthday and married his partner, Alec Maxwell. “I’d been asked so many times to write a book, but I always said no,” says Enninful, who began work on the project when the breakneck pace of the fashion world was brought to a halt by the pandemic. “This time, it just felt right. This has been a year of change: turning 50, getting married, and now my book. I’m very excited.”

A Visible Man by Edward Enninful will be published on 6 September 2022 by Penguin Press and Bloomsbury.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

You have Meisel by your side and you call Pavarotti?! Edward, what's good? (With Nicki Minaj voice and face).

 

[tigerrouge]

He knows what he's doing. He is the man of the moment, and there's probably no better time to bring this book out than now.

 

[MissMagAddict]

 

[dior_couture1245]

Oh dear...Edward's book. Sounds like a real treat.

Love reading very successful people's boo-hoo stories. There he is sitting on top of the world, and he's going to complain about how tough he had it. Give me a break. Everyone loves to act now that being successful doesn't come without challenges and so poor me...I had to work a ton, I had to work against people's expectations, I had to prove myself, I had to show up early and leave late, I had nothing and I wanted everything, I didn't have a life, my workplace was tense and cutthroat...what else does anyone expect being on top entails? But yeah...as a black, gay, immigrant...he's very special.

 

[axiomatic]

lol
When Anna Wintour pissed off Kamala

Tensions between Vice President KAMALA HARRIS and President JOE BIDEN and their teams began before inauguration and involved not just complicated issues like mass migration on the southern border but cover photos of glossy magazines.

In the two weeks before Inauguration Day, Harris dispatched aides to address the upcoming issue of Vogue, according to an exclusive excerpt of the upcoming book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future” by The New York Times reporters JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS.

The leaked cover photo, which featured Harris in Converse and skinny pants, was “an approachable but less than grand depiction of the incoming vice president,” the reporters wrote. But Harris had been expecting a different photo, one that was ultimately made the “digital cover.” Vogue also eventually sold a limited-edition issue with the other photo.

“Harris was wounded. She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would Vogue depict another world leader this way?” the duo reported.

Harris’ incoming press secretary SYMONE SANDERS, who declined to comment, reached Vogue editor ANNA WINTOUR to convey Harris’ frustration. Wintour, who did not respond to a request for comment, protested that she had chosen the picture personally because it made Harris “relatable,” according to Martin and Burns.

Incoming chief of staff TINA FLOURNOY was caught “off-guard by the anger in Harris’ circle” and contacted a senior Biden campaign official. Given the country's myriad crises and the recent January 6th riot at the Capitol, “[t]he Biden adviser told Flournoy that this was not the time to be going to war with Vogue over a comparatively trivial aesthetic issue. Tina, the adviser said, these are first-world problems,” according to the excerpt.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^ I don't know but was it Kamala first time dealing with press? If she did not want to be depicted in this way she should not have come with her converse and then to be photographed with?

Was she not the one being in this outfit all the time and trying to be close to the mass? And as vice president, she should know her priorities. People see so many images, hers were forgotten the next day.

 

[MON]

Oh come on. For someone as smart and strategic as her, there’s no way that she did not know what specific look was gonna make the cover. You’re telling me that she went to shoot for Vogue and no one bothered asking why she’s being photographed in chucks?

Prescinding from The September Issue, a separate shoot is dedicated for the cover. What makes this any different.

My bet? They planned the cover, but did not anticipate the backlash. Even her own supporters dragged the cover, and alas they conveniently threw Vogue under the bus.

And please, she literally campaigned like this and everyone ate it up even going as far as calling her relatable. And now they cry foul when the exact same look was feature on the cover of Vogue? Please.

She has an issue with her Vogue cover, but found no issue with her Elle cover where she’s literally in office wear and is seated on an office chair from god knows where in the middle of Washington? Choices.

If a Vogue cover bothers her, she has no place anywhere near the Oval office.

Anna won’t lose any sleep over this. Jill Biden appeared on Vogue and Vogue alone. She still has access.

If at all, it will be Kamala who will be seen in a negative light here. As said, this is very first world problems. Next.

 

[cestmagique]

I don't get why this seems so outrageous to people. I'm sure Kamala isn't busy sticking pins in an Anna Wintour voodoo doll right now. A less conventional, more relatable cover makes more sense for Elle; maybe Kamala's concept of a Vogue cover was something with more grandeur and power. She's the first woman VP, that's incredibly significant and should have been presented as such. It's not a moment when pushing for relatability makes sense. I'm sure she didn't black out while the pictures of her in Converse were taken, doesn't mean she had the understanding that that image would be the cover shoes and all. And of course your outfit when you're on the campaign trail doesn't have to be how you're dressed on the cover of Vogue...

 

[MON]

doesn't mean she had the understanding that that image would be the cover shoes and all.

Every shoot starts with the cover shoot (or has at least a particular segment for it). She should've asked why she was made to wear chucks for that particular segment. The fact she allowed to have those shoes worn for that particular part meant she consented that any image from that set would have been fair game for the cover. The lack of foresight for her and her team, on such trivial matters, isn't a good look for a Vice President.

She was literally posing for a full body shot. The pose and the hand placement was very telling. She knew.

She felt belittled and wounded because she wore that for a Vogue cover.. is just a story writing itself for the next primaries. Whoever allowed this to be released should step down.

 

[cestmagique]

I don't feel like this is big enough to reflect on Kamala as an indicator of her judgement or something. It's ultimately trivial as you said and we lack information. If this is a manufactured problem for publicity and they didn't like the cover result or the reaction to it, that's super annoying and I don't feel bad for anyone involved. But it sounds like both sides had issues and communication would have helped. Then when Vogue did try to reach out and resolve things, the timing was terrible and the situation had already become almost laughably unimportant.

 

[Faith Akiyama]

If anything the tragic backdrop/set design of the chosen cover should've been brought into question The Converses were great imho.

 

[Marc10]

Condé Nast workers are unionizing

 

[Bernie Flood]

Condé Nast workers are unionizing

Is this going to change a thing?

 

[Bernie Flood]

I don't get why this seems so outrageous to people. I'm sure Kamala isn't busy sticking pins in an Anna Wintour voodoo doll right now. A less conventional, more relatable cover makes more sense for Elle; maybe Kamala's concept of a Vogue cover was something with more grandeur and power. She's the first woman VP, that's incredibly significant and should have been presented as such. It's not a moment when pushing for relatability makes sense. I'm sure she didn't black out while the pictures of her in Converse were taken, doesn't mean she had the understanding that that image would be the cover shoes and all. And of course your outfit when you're on the campaign trail doesn't have to be how you're dressed on the cover of Vogue...

She’s probably expecting to have a Hillary Clinton post cheating treatment. But budget cut of course

 

[MON]

I am for this 100%...

but kinda suspecting that this is also a big publicity stunt. The CNU (which has its own website) uses the Conde Nast trademark as part of its logo.

Won't be surprised if CN execs come out with a wonderfully worded statement of their support of CNU

 

[Deleted member 45369]

This is what happens when you hire people who actually need to work for money and not trust fund babies looking for a glamorous job.

 

[lucy92]

This is what happens when you hire people who actually need to work for money and not trust fund babies looking for a glamorous job.

I think one "trust fund baby" that worked out well for a magazine/industry in general is Tracee Ellis Ross - She worked for HB in the 90s, appeared in some editorials and also did some runway shows for Mugler in 1991 and 1992. Watch her walk in the butterfly show.

I can't think of many other well-connected people that displayed a legitimate interest in the industry - aside from self promotion purposes - or produced work of significant cultural value.

 

[lucy92]

lol
When Anna Wintour pissed off Kamala

The source is Politico - owned by German right-wing billionaire. They make up quotes.