The Business of Magazines

[caioherrero]

Will W be:

Dec/Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr/May
Jun/Jul
August
September
Oct/Nov

It's very strange to have 8 issues, that's a big cut.

Please Tonchi go away....

we have a lot of editors "without job": Eva Chen, Ariel Foxman, Joe Zee, who could do such a good thing with a magazine...

 

[MissMagAddict]

Please Tonchi go away....

we have a lot of editors "without job": Eva Chen, Ariel Foxman, Joe Zee, who could do such a good thing with a magazine...

I’ve always thought Joe Zee should have gotten it instead of Tonchi.


Thanks for all the news everyone.

 

[Rigida]

I knew the end of Teen Vogue is near when they did that weird makeover in attempt to make it more "collectible"... RIP Teen Vogue you have been a huge part of my teenage years

 

[Benn98]

One can't help but wonder when Seventeen will be closing its print operations. How the heck did Seventeen last longer than Teen Vogue??? Then again, I can't remember the last time Hearst shuttered a print magazine. CosmoGirl? In fact, they're LAUNCHING new print magazines and they just bought Rodale. Obviously they're doing something right.

I doubt they're doing that well - Seventeen is only running on six issues per year anyway, but maybe it's because the brand was much stronger than TeenVogue? Let's not forget, the magazine was launched in 1944. That and the fact that their targets are tweens as opposed to teens. I can see some tweens still buying magazines, or the parents may be doing it for them because the brand is trusted and inoffensive.

 

[caioherrero]

Serena Hood, Executive Fashion Director of British Vogue are stepping down from her job today. Idk if she was fired or not.

 

[caioherrero]

Kelly Talamas is out of Vogue Mexico.

 

[blackkohl]

Interesting/painful interview with Alexandra Shulman published in the Guardian today. She comes across so badly here, with seemingly a total lack of self-awareness. Seems quite bitter about Edward Enninful, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...nd-idea-that-there-was-a-posh-cabal-offensive

 

[Srdjan]

I love reading interviews with Alexandra, thank you for posting, blackkohl! Her arguments and thoughts usually sound a bit chaotic, but honest. She is charming, but you can't support her 100%.

The lines that surprised me were these:

Adwoa [Aboah, the model] is very much, you know, the girl of the moment. We’d actually offered her the cover and she turned us down when I was there. I don’t know why. Maybe she knew she was going to get this cover.”

How can you turn down a British Vogue cover?

 

[Miss Dalloway]

My god, what is that interview? SERIOUSLY?!! She is beyond ridiculous, for a woman who spent, well over, two decades in such high public position how can she lack this level of PR savvy? HOW?!!!

What a horrible piece, that made her look thousands of times more racist, ignorant, and down right embarrassingly bitter! She never came across as natural, or easy going in interviews, but this is a new low!!

Why is she even doing these interviews? She says to clarify things, but she does the opposite here! Really, you gonna claim you put Naomi on the cover the most times, after Moss? Sit the f**k down your lies! Gisele, Carolyn, Christy just to name a few more, apart from Natalia!! Campbell might lack diplomacy, but at least she is not afaird to call you out on your BS! As does the journalist in this piece, she must know UK press is not after her fake attempt to fix her bad press, they want blood over Edward, they need drama! And to serve it to them, like this, on a silver platter, for crying out loud, she must be smarter than this!

And how GLORIOUS to see Thandie Newton thrown in her idiot face!! I been screaming about that for years, and the best argument she could muster was that Newton was simply not famous enough, hahaha!You gave Jade Jagger TWO covers, Sept even. And Sienna Miller SIX covers, most without even having something to promote, bye!! Enjoy the legacy of utter lack of diversity at Vogue, you left behind!

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^ Lol she even went that far by using her grandfather's son to not appear as racist. I despised her before, i despise her even more now. She is such a bad liar. She had the nerves to say Naomi had more covers than Kate Moss

The fact that she wanted to put famous people on covers regarding the sales is one thing but, even inside, the content was mostly with white models. She should just do as Lucinda does : disappear.

P.S :
My bad, i read it really fast. You're right, Eizhowa

 

[eizhowa]

^I think she said Naomi had the most covers, except Kate Moss.

But yes, everything she says in interviews is so cringeworthy...

 

[Benn98]

I'm beginning to pity Alexandra. For being so naieve to proceed with this interview hoping it'll straighten things out, short-sighted not to see the writer setting her up, for being so sturrbborn not to see her short comings as EIC, and not actually thinking before she made these sweeping statements. I always considered her to be socially awkward, not the personality to run the 2nd most profitable Vogue in the world, but brutally honest. I've said this countless but she never had a full scope of the magazine nor the cultural sphere it covered. That's part of the reason she seems to think Naomi had the most covers after Kate (hahahaha, the delusion). I think it was wrong and disgusting of Naomi to paint her as a racist for writing the BoF feature though. To me, she doesn't sound like a racist.

Alexandra is delusional in saying that there wasnt another top black model other than Naomi and Jourdan. Karin Swerink from Dutch Vogue also said something similar. Don't these women even look at what other editions are doing, who's trending? If I remember correctly, Liya, Chanel Iman came before Jourdan, then there was Joan. These are commercial black models who were at the top of their game. In terms of actresses, Naomie Harris was in two Bond films and she had Moonlight last year??? This is why it's a problem when you don't have a cultural savvy EIC (Wintour) or someone with a distinct vision (Picardie) in charge of a commercial edition. Alexandra only cared about the ones selling covers, and the moment she chanced on a selling recipe, she stuck with it for years. I love how she mentioned the Adwoa thing when it was literally a last minute damage repair option which backfired. If you ask me, she probably approached Adwoa to cover her last issue (September) with all the other aristos and it would've made sense, but had to settle on Nora Attal (such a random face). Even in the closing stages she still struggled to come up with a black model, lol, unbelievable.

 

[MON]

Makes me wonder if she really resigned or otherwise. The bitterness is very apparent.

Like girl, move forward. Stop giving out these interviews. You led Vogue for decades. That in itself is already a legacy. Stop tarnishing that with these nightmare interviews. The fact that she feels that she needs to justify things is very tragic. Let people say what they wanna say, and haters hate. I hope she finds solace with the fact that she lasted that long despite what her “alleged” mistakes were. I also hope that she realizes that the press is only giving her the time of day because they want drama. Come 2018, and Edward is no longer “fresh news”, they’ll forget about you girl. So don’t let them use you.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Naomi has more Vogue Italia covers (10, one under Sartori, the rest under Franca) than British ones... She called Ms. Sozzani "my angel"

 

[Bertrando3]

It was sooooooo REVEALING how racist she was during her tenure at British Vogue, she lost herself in that interview, the interviewer was brilliant, he made her say whatever needed to be revealed and she talked openly without realizing she was embarrassing herself lol. It´s crazy she had the nerve to say she could not find more FAMOUS black supermodels like WHAAAAAT ???

Iman, Tyra Banks, Yasmin Warsame, Liya Kebede, Arlenis Sosa, Jourdun Dun, Joan Smalls, Chanel Iman, Sessilee Lopez etc etc SO SO SO many working female black supermodels who the public knew and knows about could have been on the cover + as well as many A-list black actresses: Alexandra you´re stupid!

 

[nyc_art_style]

The BOF feature didn’t paint her as racist. But that guardian article sure as hell did.

I would really love to know what she meant by Adwoa being “the perfect mix of race”. And it disturbed me that Adwoa’s white features (her ginger hair and posh background) is what intrigued Alexandra most. That’s probably why she turned the cover down. Because she didn’t want to be depicted as just another posh girl.

And it didn’t enter her mind to think of diversity? How does Shulman not realize that that’s the problem!

We’re well rid of her.

12 covers in 25 years jesus....

Did any Asians ever get any solo covers of Shulman’s Vogue?

 

[tigerrouge]

I don't think Alex should be giving any interviews at the moment. Regardless of whether or not there's racism, the press are looking for drama on that point, and will reframe any piece around that issue. She should have known she was handing herself over on a plate, especially if she's a person who puts her foot in her mouth in general.

Just leave Vogue behind, and do whatever it is you've always truly wanted to do, and when Edward gets a few things wrong - or worse, bores people - then smile inwardly and continue to proceed on with the next chapter of your life.

 

[Benn98]

Did any Asians ever get any solo covers of Shulman’s Vogue?

Nope, nothing. But then again neither has any Asian woman covered US Vogue OG. So far they have only Fei Fei and Liu Wen, both group shots.

Now that I think of it, Alexa is quarter Asian. Does that count? Lol.

 

[honeycombchild]

Whoever is advising Alexandra needs to do a better job.

I am sure the cover she believes they offered her was for Miss Vogue or a supplement and wasn't a main cover, which I imagine her team may have said no to as they knew her profile at the time should hopefully land her a main cover very soon.

The fact this woman can't even remember that she gave 11 covers to Gisele and thinks she gave Naomi the most is ludicrous. The most hilariously laughable bit about the entire interview is her unbelievable comment about Adwoa being the perfect mixture of mixed race because she has some 'posh Notting Hill' in her?! Alexandra is not a dumb or silly woman and yet she still believe that was a sentence she should utter? The perfect mixture of mixed race, because she has some of the upper class in her?

She needs to stop talking. Immediately.

 

[mepps]

The New York Times

Radhika Jones, a Times Books Editor, Said to Be Next Vanity Fair Editor
By SYDNEY EMBERNOV. 11, 2017


Radhika Jones, an editor in the books department at The New York Times, is expected to be named the next editor of Vanity Fair. Credit William B. Plowman/NBC
In a dramatic changing of the guard, Radhika Jones, the editorial director of the books department at The New York Times and a former top editor at Time magazine, is expected to be named the next editor of Vanity Fair, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

Condé Nast, which publishes Vanity Fair, plans to make the announcement as soon as Monday.

Ms. Jones, 44, will succeed the 68-year-old Graydon Carter, who said in September that he was stepping down from the glossy general-interest magazine after a 25-year run at its helm.

A spokeswoman for Condé Nast declined to comment.

In anointing Ms. Jones, who holds degrees from Harvard College and Columbia University, Vanity Fair has placed its future in the hands of a woman — the first since Tina Brown served as the magazine’s editor from 1984 until 1992 — who has cultivated the kind of sophistication and prestige that Condé Nast has long valued.

Mr. Carter’s announcement two months ago set off a race to inherit his throne and ignited speculation across the media industry. In a magazine business that has lost much of its luster in recent year, Vanity Fair has largely retained its glow, and its editorship remains one of the most coveted in the business.

Robert Sauerberg, the chief executive of Condé Nast, and Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue and Condé Nast’s artistic director, oversaw the search. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, also played a significant role in selecting Mr. Carter’s successor. Mr. Carter was not involved in the decision-making process.

With the selection of Ms. Jones, Condé Nast has made clear that it still respects print, even as it looks to a digital future less tied to its magazines. Before joining the books desk at The Times last year, Ms. Jones was deputy managing editor at Time magazine, where she oversaw the Time 100 issue. At the Paris Review, the literary magazine known for its Writers at Work interviews, she was a managing editor. She has also worked at Grand Street, Artforum and The Moscow Times.

Her deep familiarity with celebrity, journalism, art and publishing were probably big draws for Condé Nast, whose editors are often expected to mingle among influential people in the disparate spheres covered by their publications.

While at Vanity Fair, Mr. Carter became a celebrity in his own right, wielding his influence beyond the world of print magazines. A party host, restaurateur and film producer, he became a known figure in Washington, New York and Hollywood. Under his leadership, Vanity Fair’s annual post-Oscar party became a big, glittering affair attended by almost everyone who won a statuette. It also served as a major advertisement for the brand.

But the state of the magazine industry has changed dramatically since Mr. Carter became Vanity Fair’s editor in the summer of 1992, and its financial challenges have not spared Condé Nast. The company, which expects to bring in $100 million less in revenue this year than it did in 2016, has slashed the budgets at its titles and is in the middle of laying off 80 employees. Earlier this month, it said it was reducing the print frequency of titles like GQ and Glamour and shutting the print edition of Teen Vogue completely.

Whereas magazine editors of yore could swan about the city in Town Cars and take long martini lunches, they must now devise ways for magazines to survive in a fraught climate. Instead of devoting much of their working hours to holding the hands of temperamental writers or overseeing the designs of print pages, they now help organize gatherings and coordinate video production.

In this time of industry-wide belt-tighting, the curtains seem to be drawing on the age of the celebrity editor, who commanded seven-figure salaries and generous expense accounts.

Other top candidates for the job included Janice Min, who breathed life into Us Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter; Anne Fulenwider, the editor in chief of Marie Claire; Andrew Ross Sorkin, a columnist and editor at The Times, and the founder of its DealBook franchise; and Mike Hogan, the digital director of Vanity Fair.