The Business of Magazines

[vogue28]

Wonder if Vogue France cut ties with Louis Pisano after those tweets he made about ASAP Rocky cheating on Rihanna on Twitter…

Diet Prada covering the topic here:

 

[avonlea002]

I hope they get rid of him. That's exactly how you end up when hiring some social media trash instead of a qualified person. God riddance.

 

[mepps]

I have to check in on this thread more often. It's popcorn worthy.
I'm also proud of myself for not being overly triggered by opinions I really disagree with.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

These people are their worst enemies. Will see in few months during fashion week if we will see him. For sure, people will have to distance themselves from him.

 

[Xone]

I don't know who he is...i just saw his IG now...and i wish i didn't...

 

[Felipe Wiedmer]

honestly, how do you think condé nast has been doing economically since starting their globalized content strategy?

 

[axiomatic]

Condé Nast terminates franchise agreement and ceases publishing operations in Russia

n a memo to Condé Nast's global staff, CEO Roger Lynch today announced the company has made the decision to terminate its franchise agreement with Condé Nast Russia and will cease publishing in the market.

Dear all,

When Putin first began this senseless war, we knew we had to take immediate action to protect our employees and our journalism and decided to suspend our publishing operations in Russia. As the war has waged on, the escalation in the severity of the censorship laws, which have significantly curtailed free speech and punished reporters simply for doing their jobs, has made our work in Russia untenable. At last count, over 650 companies have now exited or substantially reduced their day-to-day business in the country.

Today, we informed our Russian colleagues of the difficult decision to terminate our franchise agreement and cease publishing in the market. While we’ve had a successful business in Russia for over 20 years, the continued atrocities brought on by this unprovoked war and the related censorship laws have made it impossible for us to continue operating there.

As we take the necessary steps to cease publishing, we expect about 10% of our staff in Russia will remain to fulfill certain outstanding obligations. It’s our absolute priority to do all we can and support everyone affected, including providing enhanced severance and benefits, employee assistance and outplacement programs, and dedicated People team guidance in applying for open positions in other markets.

Words simply cannot express how difficult this time is for so many. What’s been weighing heavily on my mind is our staff who did not choose this war, and yet continue to bear some of its consequences. I’m extremely grateful to our teams in Russia for their many years of dedication in building great publications there that have lived up to the highest standards of Condé Nast.

Thank you all for your continued care and compassion.

My best, Roger

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Any news about L'Uomo Vogue and Vogue Hommes. I can still find both names in the CN credits with its international titles.

 

[MON]

The end of Russian Vogue.

Never thought it’ll end this way.

 

[Xone]

Any news about L'Uomo Vogue and Vogue Hommes. I can still find both names in the CN credits with its international titles.

Well L'uomo IG don't exist anymore and VH it's not updated since last year.....

 

[tigerrouge]

Reading her editor's note in yesterday's edition of You magazine (Mail on Sunday women's supplement), Jo Elvin has decided to leave the world of magazines behind to enter the charity sector. Jo started out at Dolly, then came to the UK, edited Sugar and B, and was at UK Glamour for 17 years (you.co.uk)

Editor’s letter: It’s been an honour, but it’s time to say goodbye…
By Jo Elvin

APRIL 24, 2022
I’ve been joking with my friends lately that I seem to be having some sort of midlife crisis that’s manifesting itself on several fronts. I have bought a lot of crazy coloured jumpsuits. I have become the world’s oldest and most avid fan of Korean pop boy bands. Oh, and I have decided to resign from my brilliant job editing Britain’s most-read newspaper magazine. That’s this one, just to be clear.

It’s been an incredible and rewarding four years. And from the moment I was appointed editor of YOU in February 2018, I’ve been determined to show, through these pages, that joy and adventure can be anyone’s at any age. This very issue, for instance, features three amazing women who faced the darkest days of their lives and actually found the joy of reinvention in the process (read it here).

Well, it’s time to heed my own message. I’ve been working full time in magazines since 1989. That’s… actually, life’s too short to do that kind of horrifying maths, so let’s not. But at 52 years old, I’ve found myself seized by the urge to find out what other kinds of challenges I can cram in before my time’s over.

To that end, I’ve recently accepted the position of CEO of the charity Children With Cancer UK. I’m excited to be put to work raising funds for vital research and care for some of our most vulnerable young people. I’ll also be continuing with freelance writing, broadcasting and other projects.

This is the first time in my life I have left a job at a point where I absolutely love it. Normally, magazine editors leave when they are asked to, via a dank stairwell, with their belongings hurriedly flung into a box. I wanted to be brave and leave on a high ‒ not at the point where everyone’s sick of my face or when I’m jaded and bitter. I can highly recommend this route; everyone smiles at you, rather than awkwardly avoiding eye contact as you leave. And the parting presents are better when you do it this way, too.

But truly, the thing that makes it really hard to say goodbye is you, the readers. I normally spend early Sunday evenings reading all your reactions to that day’s issue. I know I’m going to feel more than a little forlorn the first Sunday when it hits me that that’s not my privilege any more. You all make us want to try harder and harder to be entertaining and of genuine use in your lives. The emails of appreciation for our efforts have meant the world to me. And, I might add, the more critical messages have, too ‒ I can never resist the challenge of winning over absolutely every last one of you! A huge number of you have literally shaped the magazine, getting in touch to tell me your incredible stories that we’ve gone on to feature and generally just giving us the ideas of what you want to see. With all of my heart, I thank every single one of you who’s ever taken the time to write to me.

No one is irreplaceable. And I know that my successor Jackie Annesley and the team will take YOU on to ever more excellent heights. I’m excited to join all of you as another avid reader.

 

[vogue28]

honestly, how do you think condé nast has been doing economically since starting their globalized content strategy?

Personally, I believe Condé Nast may be doing well in terms of recouping money from all the jobs they've cut and far less expenditure on production costs due to sharing content but in terms of sales, I'm doubtful they've increased.

I've spoken to a lot of people, magazine collectors like the majority of us here at tFS, who've quit purchasing international editions of Vogue all together due to the shared content strategy - myself included. Many loyal subscribers for years have terminated subscriptions, because content is reprinted and covers just aren't cutting it. What's the point in purchasing four Vogues a month... which all have the same content? There's zero point.

I've been obsessed with Vogue Paris since I first stumbled across it and this month is the first time since 2008 in which I haven't made a mad dash out into town to purchase a copy. The absolute end of an era.

 

[Lola701]

I think it could be time to launch an African Vogue. I know that can be quite unfortunate because the extreme poverty there, and Vogue is a magazine promoting luxury market around the world. But again, there's a GQ South Africa but not a Vogue, seems crazy and sexist. Sometimes seems Edward is doing Vogue Africa in The UK. But diversity is needed, of course. I still don't know if the current British Vogue represents fair enough their own population, the people living in England and Scotland, their culture. I read some comments here that Edward's Vogue is too American for the U.K. I don't live there, but I read your writing here and that gave me some arguments. To be fair with EE, his Vogue has a vision, the same direction as his first year. Even he did a better magazine than Anna, his Vogue is far from terrible.

Where do you start if you wants to launch a Vogue Africa?
Between French, English and Portuguese speaking countries, the cultural differences and relevances…Where do we start?
Or is that Vogue Africa going to be like Vogue France, which means it will probably only be about Nigeria and SA when it’s supposed to be about a whole continent?

And this ask the question of the advertisers. Luxury brands, except for their beauty department have little to no official presence in the continent and I’m not sure local designers across the continent have enough infrastructure to support a magazine.

Vogue Arabia is interesting because it speaks to a culture. People in the Middle East and in the Maghreb can recognize themselves in the magazine because they shares more or less the same culture…

I do not feel like it could be the same for a Vogue Africa.

 

[Felipe Wiedmer]

Personally, I believe Condé Nast may be doing well in terms of recouping money from all the jobs they've cut and far less expenditure on production costs due to sharing content but in terms of sales, I'm doubtful they've increased.

I've spoken to a lot of people, magazine collectors like the majority of us here at tFS, who've quit purchasing international editions of Vogue all together due to the shared content strategy - myself included. Many loyal subscribers for years have terminated subscriptions, because content is reprinted and covers just aren't cutting it. What's the point in purchasing four Vogues a month... which all have the same content? There's zero point.

I've been obsessed with Vogue Paris since I first stumbled across it and this month is the first time since 2008 in which I haven't made a mad dash out into town to purchase a copy. The absolute end of an era.

Yeah, sometimes i get the impression that they spend too much money in unnecessary luxuries like the whole Bon Apetit scandal. I think the shared content strategy would be nice if all the productions weren't so Anglocentric. Imagine if instead of US and UK's teams making all the productions, it was like a rotation where a diferent country gets the chance every month to mae a global editorial on their own terms. I honestly wouldn't mind getting a Vogue China reprint in my local edition from time to time.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Yes, I noticed the last issue of Vogue Latam was too American for my taste, only the main editorial has their own identity.

 

[Xone]

The worst thing a product can have is the lack of soul, personality and identification....and in this case among other things...but of course the heads of CN would not understand this, they took the easy road and convenient, for Anna and Edward, in terms of ego....

 

[vogue28]

Law Roach has joined British Vogue as contributing west coast editor:

 

[blueorchid]

Why does British Vogue need a west coast editor, though?

 

[Bertrando3]

That's great news, maybe he will be in charge of creating editorials for British Vogue on the West Coast and discover a rooster of photographers and models and so on.
Perhaps do what André Leon Talley should have done in the US too.

 

[Melancholybaby]

That's great news, maybe he will be in charge of creating editorials for British Vogue on the West Coast and discover a rooster of photographers and models and so on.

I've read a couple of his interviews and I got the sense the only person Law Roach is interested in promoting is himself.