The Business of Magazines

[Miss Dalloway]

While i am indifferent to Elle's content most of the time (it must be that i was never much of an Elle girl anyhow), am glad to see HB is stable, and i hope they keep being successful, they deserve it.

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | style.com

Coming in October, just days after the last look has left the runway, the debut issue of Style.com Magazine will take you deep inside the Spring 2012 collections. Bringing the voices of both the editors and the readers of the world's leading fashion Web site to print for the first time, this new publication will not only uncover the most intriguing people, places, and clothes of the season, it will also chart the highs and lows, the triumphs and setbacks, the public and private moments on the journey from New York to Paris, catwalk to sidewalk, backstage to after-party. It's the season from every angle. It's a magazine for fashion obsessives by fashion obsessives.

You can pre-order your copy at style.com

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | wwd.com

JOURNAL ENTRY: While Sally Singer handed over her latest cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine to the relatively unknown jazz singer Esperanza Spalding, editor Deborah Needleman is going conventional: Rachel Weisz is WSJ’s September cover girl.

On the cover, Weisz is dressed in an Alexander McQueen herringbone trench and is standing in a pose that reveals plenty. The September issue also includes an interview with Marc Jacobs and Robert Duffy and an eight-page spread that shows off the back rooms and ateliers of Hermès.

Needleman’s first September issue delivers some good news: WSJ clocks in at 124 total pages and 57 ad pages — both records for the three-year-old magazine. A Wall Street Journal spokeswoman said that its ad performance is a 52 percent jump over last year’s September issue.

The issue comes out on August 27.

 

[Melancholybaby]

Do you know if it will be available on newsstands in other countries or just in the US?

 

[tarsha]

Return of the Super heroes: After years of being sidelined, are models making a comeback?

It was Anna Wintour who first decided to put Hollywood stars on the cover of Vogue and since then, the fashion world has never looked back.
From designer collaborations to high-end campaigns, celebrities have dominated the industry as models - bar a precious few - took a back seat.
But with a sluggish economy and over-exposed actors, it seems 'the Supers' are finally making a comeback.

And a model will have the professional experience, time and flexibility that an actress might not.

A fashion source told the MailOnline: 'It's a not a very well kept secret that the industry has never been keen on using celebrities.
'There is definitely a determined movement to elevate models back to the their rightful place on the cover of magazines.

'I've noticed a distinct drop in the number of celebrity lead shoots over the last few months.

'Models feel fresh compared to celebrities right now, and they are often much cheaper to use.'

It certainly is a change to see a variety in editorials - while Linda Evangelista once claimed she never got out of bed for less than $10,0000, her colleague Cindy Crawford has admitted the industry has changed over the years.
Cindy said: 'I just saw the CoverGirl commercial with Taylor Swift and I thought, "Wow, it is so hard for models to get a job these days.

'You have to sing and act, too.

'There doesn't seem to be as much work specifically just for models.'

dailymail

 

[honeycombchild]

Francesca Burns has been appointed Fashion Editor at British Vogue. She joins the women's monthly from GQ Style where she held the role of Fashion Director.

Not who I was expecting at all.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Now that is indeed a surprising appointment by Vogue.

 

[Melancholybaby]

Unexpected move indeed.Can't wait to see what she does at Vogue.

 

[mishahoi]

Return of the Super heroes: After years of being sidelined, are models making a comeback?

Cindy obviously hasn't seen the new Lanvin campaign movie then. They're gonna have to learn all that stuff anyway

 

[8eight]

Esquire has appointed Tom Macklin to the newly created role of Entertainment Director.

Macklin joins Esquire from ELLE, where he has worked as Executive Editor/Entertainment Director for the past three years. Prior to joining ELLE, he talent-managed the ELLE Style Awards for seven years - a role he maintained after moving to work full time on the magazine.

Working closely with Editor Alex Bilmes, Macklin will be responsible for securing star names for both Esquire's magazine and events.

At ELLE he engineered the debut British magazine covers for Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan and Emma Watson and delivered exclusives with celebrities including Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and Lily Allen, whose October 2009 cover helped the magazine go on to win the prestigious Yellow Pencil D&AD Design Award.

Before joining ELLE, Macklin worked in PR and events for fashion and lifestyle brands including Tiffany & Co, Dior, Zegna and Saab. He has also talent-managed high-profile media events for clients including Entertainment Films, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Bilmes said: “Tom is quite simply the best celebrity wrangler in the business. He has incredible contacts and an unsurpassed knowledge of the celebrity world and I have long been an admirer of his brilliant work for ELLE.

"We are delighted to welcome him to the Esquire team and I know he will ensure that Esquire's cover stars are the envy of our competitors, and that our events are the most star-studded in town."

Macklin added: “As a committed and avid Esquire reader, I am proud to join this iconic brand; especially at such a pivotal moment in the magazine's history. The prospect of working with Alex Bilmes and his superlative creative team is incredibly exciting, and I look forward to delivering an unrivalled run of celebrity exclusives and event initiatives next year."

Esquire was redesigned and relaunched by the National Magazine Company in May 2011 with a new line-up of writers including Giles Coren, AA Gill, Will Self and Tom Parker Bowles, as well as new sections and a new size. More recently, former Face Editor and GQ contributing editor Johnny Davis was appointed as Deputy Editor.

 

[honeycombchild]

It's a shame he's left Elle, he did good work there. Esquire just can't decide what it wants to be anymore and is flailing around revamping every five minutes.

 

[kasper!]

Not who I was expecting at all.

It's a little...surprised..

 

[MON]

Esquire Philippines

Checking our first Esquire cover. Everyone approves! Congratulations Esquire Philippines! @erwinromulo http://lockerz.com/s/135044628

twitter.com/lizzzuy

 

[blueorchid]

Not really a business, but I don't know where else to put this:

ICONOGRAPHY was the first and most comprehensive fashion magazine cover library published online (1998-2010). It was privately funded, non-profit, and intended to be used as a research and reference site. It is now closed. Thank you for all the support over the years.

fashion-iconography.net

 

[mikel]

^ Worst news ever! I hope someone saved all the covers Such a terrible shame!

 

[Miss Dalloway]

That is very sad, but not surprising! The site hasn't been properly updated for years now. Its a shame.

 

[Melancholybaby]

I'm so frustrated about fashioniconography.It was an amazing source for reference.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Awful. I hope all is well with Gwen...

 

[Melancholybaby]

^If by Gwen you mean the owner of the site, someone on fashin said that she closed the site for personal reasons.Anyway, I'll really miss that website.

 

[tarsha]

Carine Roitfeld about Vogue Paris Dec 2010/Jan 2011 issue

People have said that your December 2010 issue that Ford guest-edited was not popular with the bosses at Condé Nast and that it’s the reason that you no longer edit the magazine.
Not at all. I decided to leave before this issue because I was doing French Vogue 10 years, 100 issues. A lot of people say I was fired because of this issue, because of the little girls dressed in mom clothes.

Also the picture of the elderly couple making out and the plastic surgery fashion shoot with a model wearing bandages all over her face decked out in couture and jewels.
It was very, very controversial. Old couples, kids, surgery. But it was not done on purpose because I was leaving. It was done before that, you know.

There was a lot of bondage in the magazine during your tenure.
The reason I call my book “Irreverent” is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book “Forgiving” because maybe I made a lot of errors too. But did you know that for Japanese people, bondage is like an art. In Japan you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it’s an art. And bondage is an art, too.

nytimes.com